Biography:
Reena Bharti is an ANRF-NPDF fellow at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad, India, and a former postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA. She earned her Ph.D. from CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow, specializing in pulmonary drug delivery and tuberculosis therapeutics. Her research focuses on innate immunity, natural killer cell biology, acute lung injury, and transplant-associated inflammation. Currently, she is developing engineered mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles for targeted RNA delivery and immunomodulation in neonatal viral sepsis. Her long-term vision is to advance innovative, translational immunotherapies for infectious and inflammatory diseases.
Title : Engineered MSC-EVs for targeted PAD4 miRNA delivery to control NETosis in neonatal viral sepsis