Swarali Lele

Swarali is a Molecular Biology Build Fellow at Open Avenues, where she works with students leading projects in molecular biology.

Swarali is an Associate Scientist (Delivery/Editing) at Editas Medicine where she focuses on developing in vivo therapies against genetic diseases using CRISPR-based gene editing tools.

Swarali has over five years of experience in the field of gene editing, immunology, and biotechnology where she worked on both ex vivo and in vivo platforms with various drug delivery modalities.

She holds a master’s degree in medical biotechnology from the University of Illinois Chicago.

A fun fact about Swarali is that she is a trained Indian classical singer, and the meaning of her name is related to musical notes.