The College of Science and Mathematics is pleased to announce Madhavi Kakakia, Ph.D. as Department Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dr. Kadakia received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in microbiology from the University of Mumbai, and her Ph.D. in infectious diseases and microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh. After completing postdoctoral fellowships at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, she came to Wright State in 1999. Dr. Kadakia is a professor in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology department at Wright State. Her research focuses on the identification of signaling pathways in cancer and development, in particular the p53 family of tumor suppressors and the vitamin D