PhD Candidate (Physiology) & TL1 Predoctoral Fellow
The Pennsylvania State University
Ms. Janhavi J. Damani is a PhD Candidate in the Integrative and Biomedical Physiology Program at Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, with 6 years of research experience in interdisciplinary academic labs and 1.5 years of professional editing experience in the scientific editing industry. Jan received her BSc and MSc in Life Sciences from The University of Mumbai and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at Penn State in The Nutrition and Immunity Lab and The Women’s Health and Exercise Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Connie J. Rogers and Dr. Mary Jane De Souza. She has also completed The Graduate Credit Certificate in Clinical & Translational Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine. In 2022, Jan was selected for the TL1 Predoctoral Research Fellowship from The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her doctoral research focuses on the role of prunes (dried plums) as a whole-food nutritional intervention in modulating markers of immune function, inflammation, oxidative stress, and cardiometabolic risk factors in postmenopausal women from the parent 12-month randomized controlled trial, The Prune Study.