Dr. Rinku Majumder received her Doctorate in Biochemistry from the Bose Institute in India in 1999. Subsequently, from 1999 to 2003, she carried out her postdoctoral studies in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2003, she was promoted to the position of Research Assistant Professor, and in 2010 she was further promoted to Research Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina. In 2015, she was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSUHSC in New Orleans. She currently serves as a permanent member of the NIH HTBT study section and she serves on the National Institutes of Health VA merit award study section.