Biography: Dr. Shiladitya Sengupta is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Shiladitya obtained his bachelors with honors and masters from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he received the Geeta Mital Gold Medal. He then went to Trinity College, University of Cambridge as a British Chevening and Nehru Scholar for his PhD in pharmacology. His postdoctoral training was in biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize from the Indian Council for Medical Research and the Young Investigator award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He is a recipient of the TR35 Innovator Award from the MIT Technology Review Magazine and the Era of Hope Scholar Award from the US Department of Defense, and has supervised several best student paper awards at recent conferences.