Rohit Arora

About Me

I am a first-year PhD student at Harvard studying Bioinformatics. My interests span across artificial intelligence for scientific research, with a focus on drug discovery and protein design.

Currently, I’m rotating in the Marks lab.

Research

2024: Rotation student in the Marks Lab, focusing on functional protein design.
2023: Worked on aging therapies as a rotation student in the Church Lab.
2021-2023: Investigated the spatial architecture of tumors in the Bose Lab.
2019-2023: Discovered targets for regenerative medicine by studying reindeers 🦌 in the Biernaskie Lab.

Some Publications

Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct and conserved tumor core and edge architectures that predict survival and targeted therapy response

R. Arora*, C. Cao*, M. Kumar [12 others], P. Bose.

Nature Communications

Covered by The Scientist

Dexamethasone modulates immature neutrophils and interferon programming in severe COVID-19

S. Sinha*, N. Rosin*, R. Arora, [12 others], J. Biernaskie.

Nature Medicine

Skin regeneration is enabled in the absence of fibroblast inflammatory priming

S. Abbasi*, S. Sinha*, E. Labit*, N. Rosin, G. Yoon, W. Rahmani, A. Jaffer, N. Sharma, A. Hagner, P. Shah, R. Arora, [8 others], J. Biernaskie.

Cell

cover article

Education

Harvard University Icon Harvard University, Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics
2023-now

University of Calgary Icon University of Calgary, B.Sc. (honours) in Biomedical Sciences
GPA: 3.99/4.0
2019-2023

Work

2022: Product Manager intern at Telus Health, focusing on smart healthcare solutions.
2021-2022: Intern and bioinformatics consultant at Phenomic AI, finding cancer drug targets using multi-omics.

More About Me

🏋️‍♂️ Gym (and sports when I’m not injured)
🌱 Plants (currently growing a banana tree)
📚 Reading (long long twitter threads)