Athma Pai

Athma Pai is an Associate Professor at the UMass Chan Medical School, affiliated with the RNA Therapeutics Institute and T.H. Chan School of Medicine. Her research bridges RNA biology, gene regulation, and computational genomics, with a focus on transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms.

• Education: BS in Biochemistry/Anthropology (University of Pennsylvania), PhD in Human Genetics (University of Chicago), Postdoc in RNA Genomics (MIT).

Research interests include RNA splicing, alternative polyadenylation, long-read sequencing challenges, and environmental impacts on gene expression. She investigates how RNA processing errors contribute to disease and develops tools for transcriptome analysis.

Publication trends highlight work in Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Computational Biology, with recent studies on pyroptosis, transgene regulation, and siRNA design.

Collaborations span institutions like the MD/PhD Program and Systems Biology departments. A Pai Lab is active in RNA therapeutics and gene expression analysis.