Raj Luxmi is a research scientist with experience in peptidergic signaling, cilia, and cilia-derived vesicles. She studied for her PhD in Molecular Biology at CSIR-NBRI, AcSIR, India, from February 2011 to December 2015. She served as a Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut Health Center from August 2015 to January 2017, and completed her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship between January 2017 and April 2023. She has been a Research Associate at UConn Health since April 2023. She has worked on peptide amidation and the regulated secretion of peptidergic signals through cilia and cilia-derived ectosomes, and has experience in protein purification and protein biochemistry techniques. She has developed a novel bioassay to study the chemotaxis of fast-moving cells.