Dr. Ritu Shekhar is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Florida, USA, working on cancer research. She obtained her Ph.D. in Oncology and Cancer Biology from the National Institute of Immunology in 2018. She is mostly interested in understanding the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms regulating tumor metastasis under different physiological conditions. Currently, she is studying the transcriptome of oncogenic herpesviruses using high-throughput sequencing platforms.