Ananya Chadha
Welcome to my corner of the web. I’m Ananya. Nice to e-meet you. I was born in Madagascar, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. In highschool, I did a variety of things: When I was 13 years-old, I shadowed in my first biology lab. Dr. Ana Andreazza’s lab, investigating biomarkers for psychiatric disorders. From there, I shadowed in Dr. Cohn’s genetics lab for two years learning about CRISPR and advanced biology. This lab ended up curing muscular dystrophy in mouse models, and seeing the mouse go from hobbling around to gaining back its functionality, with just genetic changes, was extremely transformational. When I was 14 years old, I also started taking flight lessons and worked my way towards my pilot’s license. I also started a toothbrush company selling biodegradable bamboo toothbrushes internationally. When I was 16 years old, after spending time with genetics, I built a platform called g-nome.org that enabled users to anonymously share genetic data, and won the cryptochicks hackathon