Kundu Lab Team

Dr. Kundu earned her MD and PhD from Jefferson Medical College before completing residency and clinical fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institute. A pathologist and basic scientist, Dr. Kundu studies the response of cells to metabolic stress, particularly the role of proteins in autophagy and the role of mutations in the DNA of mitochondria in cancer. She is the recipient of several prestigious early-career investigator awards, and was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigators in 2017.