The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Shristi Shrestha is both literally and figuratively a long way from her days as an undergraduate student conducting research on medicinal plants. The Nepalese native left her homeland in 2012 to earn her Ph.D. in biotechnology science and engineering from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and has managed to acquire an enviable expertise in genetic research since then. “It’s a very humbling experience to remember being so new to research to now doing genomic research that is important for understanding life-threatening diseases,” she says.