Ayushi Mohanty

Ayushi Mohanty (‘27) is a sophomore from Texas with a strong interest in neuroscience, computational biology, and cancer research. She joined the Institute as a NeURO fellow, where she works in the Hayden Lab to study how glioblastoma tumors reprogram microglia to promote tumor growth. Through this work, she hopes to uncover the molecular mechanisms driving this transformation and identify new therapeutic targets that could slow or prevent disease progression.

At Stanford, Ayushi holds leadership roles in the Stanford Undergraduate Neuroscience Society and the Stanford iGEM team, among other student organizations. Outside of academics and research, she finds joy in dancing, volunteering in her community, tackling logic puzzles, and spending quality time with her family.

Faculty Advisor: Melanie Hayden Gephart