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Dr. Siddharth is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Dipali Sharma’s lab in the department of oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is working on deciphering the molecular determinants responsible for racial disparity of triple negative breast cancer progression among African-American and European-American women. He earned his PhD in biotechnology with specialization in cancer biology from KIIT University, Odisha, India. His thesis research focused on the characterization of distinct pre-metastatic quiescent-breast cancer stem cells (Q-BCSCs) in a model system of breast cancer metastasis.