Bioinformatics Specialist
Penn Medicine, Center for Personalized Diagnostics
My name is Akshay Chitturi. I am a bioinformatics specialist at the Center for Personalized Diagnostics, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. I was born and raised in Austin, Texas and completed my undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD with a degree in biomedical engineeng. I then completed my masters' degree in Bioinformatics at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA while researching proteomics at the Dunbrack Lab within the Fox Chase Cancer Center. In 2018 I graduated and stepped into my current role at UPenn. In May of this year, I graduated with a masters' in Computer and Information Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.