Rama Kaalia

Prior to joining Broad Institute in October 2022, Rama Kaalia worked as a research fellow in Biomedical Informatics Lab at Nanyang Technology University Singapore for three years. She has earned her Ph.D. as well as M.Tech (master of technology) in computational biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has a B.Tech (bachelor of technology) in biotechnology from Kurukshetra University, India. She is now a postdoc in the Claussnitzer Lab of the Type 2 Diabetes Systems Genomics group at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The goal of her research is to develop methods and pipelines to find associations between cellular programs and morphological features of cells in relation to metabolic diseases using genetic studies and network biology approaches, therefore, contributing to the variants to function (V2F) framework of the lab. Most of her research work has addressed the need to integrate and analyze the biological information to predict targets for a disease; and identifying biologically relevant modules and their functional annotations to aid disease diagnostics and therapeutics. She has also worked in the field of network biology, biomedical ontologies, and chemo informatics.