Nupur Pande

Nupur Pande serves as an Instructor in the Natural Science department at Oregon Institute of Technology's Portland-Metro campus since 2021, teaching General Education chemistry courses while developing research-based learning methodologies to prepare students for contemporary workforce demands.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of California Irvine
• M.Sc. in Chemistry from Lucknow University, India
• Postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Francisco
• Postgraduate researcher position at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon

Dr. Pande's research integrates Molecular Biology, Virology, and Cancer Research through investigations of viral immune evasion mechanisms at maternal-fetal interfaces, dietary phytonutrient impacts on cancer cell death pathways, and genomic/proteomic biomarker discovery for early cancer detection. Her work emphasizes translational applications of natural chemistries in disease diagnostics.