Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

Here is what Bhairavi's nominator had to say about her:

"Bhairavi Tolani, PhD, or Vivi as we call her, is an accomplished cancer researcher and faculty member. Despite her busy schedule, she is devoted to the SKY Breath Meditation organization and volunteers a lot of her free time to teach the SKY Campus Happiness Retreat and the Sahaj Samadhi meditation courses to faculty and staff.  She has written grants as well to make this accessible and free of cost to the campus community to help people deal with stress, anxiety, and depression by learning the breathing techniques. She is a wonderful, warm person.” 

Nominated by Roopa Ramamoorthi, Ph.D. 

Bhairavi's Bio:

My research has been focused on developing cancer therapeutics. For the past 17 years, my cancer research experience spanning academia, industry, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) includes breast, ovarian, cervical, lung, and pancreatic cancer, melanoma, and hematological malignancies.    

As a high school student in India, I already knew that I wanted to contribute to cancer treatments. Thus at 19, I...