Dr. Mona Batish

Mona Batish is an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor of Science with Honors from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India in 2003, and her Masters of Science with Honors from the same university in 2005. In 2011, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers University), where she specialized in cell and molecular biology. She was awarded the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (EIA) in 2012, which allowed her to establish her own laboratory. Since then, she has been conducting research on different RNA species and their role in various cellular processes. Her current research focuses on the processing, localization, and function of both coding and noncoding RNAs in health and diseases. She specializes in using single-molecule RNA imaging and a combination of molecular and biochemical tools to understand gene expression regulation and to develop novel diagnostic assays for Ewing’s Sarcoma, a pediatric bone cancer, using different RNA species as biomarkers.