Kavita Iyer graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Mumbai. Subsequently she earned her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU. She further pursued a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at VCU where she was trained as a structural biologist and subsequently worked as a Research Scientist. While at CAS, Kavita has worked on a wide range of topics including immuno-oncology, CRISPR therapeutics, rare diseases, and nano biosensors in Life Sciences as well as covalent inhibitors and PROTACs in Medicinal Chemistry.
