Dr. Ankita Mitra is an immunologist with an interest in Immuno-Oncology, T-cell biology, and signaling. She earned, from the University of Calcutta, her Bachelor's degree and  Master's degree in Zoology in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She completed her Ph.D. in Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences (Immunology) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 2013 to 2020. Subsequently, she served as a postdoctoral researcher at Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health from July 2020. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is working on identifying biomarkers and their underlying mechanisms of action in developing resistance toward Immune checkpoint blockade in advanced melanoma patients. She has extensive experience in multicolor flow cytometry with complex panels (including spectral), human and murine T-cell culture, T-cell functional assays, multiplex bead-based cytokine, and single-cell secretome assays, expressing proteins in mammalian cells and purification.