Tannishtha reya biography template
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Tannishtha Reya
Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist
Tannishtha Reya is an Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist working in cancer research at Columbia University in New York.
She has received numerous awards, including an NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2009 and an NCI Outstanding Investigator Award in 2015.[1] Reya is particularly known for co-authoring an influential publication in 2001 coining the term "cancer stem cell" to describe a cancer cell that mirrors the properties of stem cells of healthy organs in the context of leukaemias or solid tumours.[2]
Education
Reya was born in India and is the granddaughter of writers Buddhadeb Bose and Protiva Bose.
She moved to the US when she was seventeen to take a liberal arts degree at Williams College in Massachusetts because she wanted to be "exposed to both literature and the sciences.".[3] She then pursued her PhD in immunology at the University of Pennsylvani