Where Technology and Biology Meet
How Alekhya Pochiraju is Promoting Inclusive Medical Research
When we talk about technology and engineering, we don’t always think of medicine, but Alekhya Pochiragu is merging the two worlds. With her work in clinical biomarker operations, she is helping create essential medicine through the marriage of biology and technology.
When Alekhya Pochiragu started college, she was excited to explore the development process of drugs. Alekhya did her undergraduate in Biotechnology at BMS College of Engineering. She jumped into bench research (also called basic research or bench science) to understand how drugs were developed. During her bench research, she realized that, though she was passionate about medicine, she wasn’t going to be able to make the immediate impact she hoped from this work. She decided to explore clinical trials and ended up finding her passion there.
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