Bhavna Dixit graduated from Amity University, India, with a master's degree in Biotechnology in 2012. She worked on gene silencing and transcriptional analysis of pathogenicity genes in wheat leaf rust fungus as a Research Scholar at the National Research Center in Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. She relocated to California in 2015 and earned a Professional Certificate Program in Biotechnology in March 2016 from UCSC Extension, Santa Clara, CA. She is interested in studying the application of regenerative medicine to age-related diseases and in advancing human health. She joined the MitoSENS group at SENS Research Foundation in 2016 and is currently working as a Research Associate focusing on the allotopic expression of mitochondrial DNA genes towards a gene therapy approach to restore normal respiratory chain function.