Dr. Aditya Sarode is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2008, his Master’s degree from the National Institute of Virology, and his Ph.D. from National Centre for Cell Science in 2020. He has been working as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University since May 2021. His research interests include immunology, tumor immunology, macrophages, B cells, host-pathogen interactions, virology, RNA biology, lymphoma and cancer biology. He is currently studying the mechanism of AICDA, a DNA mutator with paramount importance in antibody diversity within the IgH loci, using human B cells by acute degradation of target proteins involved in transcription terminations and validating them using mouse model.