To celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week, we invited Shalini Chopra, PhD, and Apurva Pandey, PhD, to answer a few questions about their work. Both are postdocs in the Evans lab in the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and were recently named 2023 Ones to Watch by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
Chopra received a master’s degree in nuclear medicine in 2010 and a doctorate in biophysics in 2019 from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Pandey received an MSc at the University of Delhi in 2016, and her doctorate at Stony Brook University, NY in 2021.
Shalini Chopra, PhD
Q: What brought you to UCSF?
I came to know about UCSF and its research during my visit to San Francisco in 2016. I was excited by the translational research done here. So, after my graduation I applied to UCSF for my postdoc position and joined the Evans lab in…