Lakshya Bajaj, Ph.D., is a core faculty member at the University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, in the Department of Pharmacology. Dr. Bajaj received his Ph.D in Genetics and Genomics from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Before joining UPR, Dr. Bajaj was a Senior Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Bajaj received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) award from the NIH and the Space Genetics Consortium award at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bajaj was also selected for the CPRIT-TRIUMPH fellowship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre.