Anika Dasgupta

Anika is a second year PhD student in the Bioengineering program at UCSB. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.S. in Bioengineering. During her undergraduate studies, she worked in the Nanotechnology and Optical Therapeutics Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Huang Chiao Huang, where she developed photoactivatable nanomedicines for the treatment of late-stage ovarian cancer. In the Dewey lab, Anika is interested in taking a bioprinting approach to determining the effect of different types of extracellular vesicles on cell behavior as well as elucidating the specific role of MBVs in the tissue microenvironment. Outside of the lab, Anika is a huge fan of cooking and baking, fiber arts, and social dancing (salsa, bachata, swing, ballroom, you name it!)