Dr. Preeti Rajesh received her PhD from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her PhD work involved generation of multi-gene knockouts to study the role of DNA repair genes in drug response to various anticancer agents. She is currently a Scientist (Bioinformatics) at SciGenom Labs, Kochi, Kerala, India where she is working on bioinformatics databases and application of next-generation sequencing for analysis of genomes.