Raised by scientifically literate parents, Annie Rathore was primed for a life of engaging her curiosity. She gravitated towards the life sciences during her undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, where she earned a degree in biotechnology. “I found it exciting to ask questions about the most intricate machinery that has ever existed in this world,” she says, referring to the human body. During an exchange program that brought her to the University of Iowa her junior year, Rathore’s interest in research blossomed. She investigated a cancer therapy in Michael Schultz’s lab in a pediatric oncology hospital and felt motivated by the patients there, realizing that her work could affect lives.
After attaining her bachelor’s degree in 2014, Rathore started her PhD at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego. There, she dug into the world of microproteins, finding one ...
