Sandhya Manohar PhD
Current
In 2024, I was awarded an SNSF Ambizione grant to start my group at the Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at the University of Zürich.
Postdoctoral research
From 2021 - 2024, I conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Biochemistry at ETH Zürich, where I studied how excess cell size affects cell cycle progression to lead to cellular senescence. This work can be found here and here.
During this time, I was awarded an ETH Fellowship, a Career Seed grant, and the public prize of the Life Science Switzerland “PIs of Tomorrow” competition.
PhD research and earlier
I conducted my graduate research with Randy King in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. During this time, I studied cell cycle regulation by the APC/C during G1 phase of the cell cycle. Using proteomic and genomic tools, I discovered a new link between insulin signaling and cell cycle control. This work can be found here.
Prior to my PhD, I conducted my bachelors research at the Center for Genomics at New York University, where I used proteomics to study systems-level responses to oxidative stress in budding yeast. This work can be found here.
