Sneha Rao was awarded the NSF scholarship for a MS in Biotechnology from The Johns Hopkins University. After obtaining her Masters’ degree, Sneha carried out her doctoral research in Neuroscience at Stony Brook University, New York and her postdoctoral research at Columbia University, New York. She now works at Arc Institute, Palo Alto, as a Senior Scientist, building in vitro brain models to research disease mechanisms and therapeutic avenues for neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.