Mahua Choudhury is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy. Her research interests are diabetes, obesity, epigenetics, and pregnancy complications. She received her Bachelor’s degree of Science in zoology and her Master’s degree of Science in molecular biology, genetics, and biophysics from the University of Calcutta, India, and her doctorate in medical pharmacology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She carried out postdoctoral training at the Neonatology section of the Pediatrics department of Colorado Children’s Hospital with a four-year prestigious American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral scholarship. She has been featured in several prestigious journals and media including the New York Times, BBC, and Glamour. She received the Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenge Award twice for her groundbreaking idea to explore ways to tackle HIV across the globe and improve the lives of mothers and children by detecting preeclampsia at an earlier stage. She is also actively working with community partners to increase community awareness and participation in the research and prevention of diabetes and obesity in Texas.