Biography

Meena Sakharkar obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore, followed by postdoctoral training at Stanford University. She was assistant professor with concurrent appointments as head, Pharmacogenomics and deputy director for the Advanced Design and Modeling Lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before joining the University of Saskatchewan Dr. Sakharkar was a professor at the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Science at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

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Research Interest

Dr. Sakharkar’s research interests are in drug target identification and validation using multiple cross-disciplinary approaches. Currently, she is developing a framework for finding novel therapeutics for metastatic breast cancer. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and has recently co-edited two books in genomics and drug discovery.