Srinivas Somarowthu received his B.S. degree from Andhra Loyola College in 2005, M.S. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2007, and Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University in 2011. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University in 2016. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine. He also serves as the director of the Biochemistry of Health and Disease graduate program. His research mainly focuses on long non-coding RNAs; non-coding RNAs in viral genomes; RNA-protein complexes; molecular modeling and bioinformatics.