Dr. Priyadarshini Kachroo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the School of Health Professions, Rutgers University. She is also a core member of the Center for Immunity and Inflammation within the Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (i3D). 

Dr. Kachroo earned her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Kiel, Germany, and completed her postdoctoral training and junior faculty appointment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Her research during this time focused on leveraging data from large, well-characterized population cohorts and clinical trials, incorporating multiple ‘omics’ platforms—including genomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, methylomics, and quantitative trait loci (QTLs)—to investigate the early-life origins of respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 

She is a recipient of the prestigious NIH/NHLBI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. Her current research centers on identifying integrative genetic, epigenetic, and metabolomic biomarkers using machine learning and network-based methods to elucidate inflammatory pathways that predict early lung function decline in children with asthma. 

Dr. Kachroo’s long-term goal is to investigate gene-environment interactions across the life course and develop a comprehensive, multi-omic profile of disease development. She has authored approximately 40 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals including Nature Medicine, European Respiratory Journal, eBioMedicine, and Scientific Reports. Dr. Kachroo is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and serves on the editorial board of PLOS ONE, in addition to serving on NIH-grant panels and reviewing for several leading academic journals.