Meghana Pagadala is an M.D./Ph.D. student interested in radiation oncology. She completed her thesis work in bioinformatics in the laboratories of Drs. Carter and Mesirov. Her research focuses on understanding germline-somatic interactions underlying the tumor immune microenvironment. She graduated from Caltech with a B.S. in Chemistry. Previously, she has worked on T cell receptor (TCR) chain mispairing under the mentorship of Dr. Baltimore at Caltech and CD8+ FoxP3+ T cells under the mentorship of Dr. Aurora at SLU School of Medicine. In her free time, she likes to play volleyball, dance, and travel.