Associate Director, Research Projects
Emory Integrated Proteomics Core (EIPC)
Parkinson’s Disease Biomarker Program (PDBP)

Pritha Bagchi received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a graduate student, she joined Dr. Christoph Fahrni’s lab, where her major contribution was characterization of a novel set of colorless, water soluble, air-stable Cu(I) affinity standards with varied binding affinities. After her Ph.D., Pritha worked with Dr. Melissa Kemp for a year to develop assays to selectively detect redox-sensitive proteins from cellular extracts using Redox-DIGE. She then received the ORISE fellowship and moved to CDC, where she measured urinary metabolites of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using UPLC-MS/MS to assess national exposure levels to VOCs originating from tobacco smoke and other sources. As the Associate Director, Research Projects, she oversees the daily operations of EIPC including sample management, sample processing, data analysis and reporting. She also provides pre-consultation to clients and helps them interpreting the results. Additionally, she manages the PDBP project including the biobanking of biofluids and sample management. In 2022, Pritha was unanimously elected as the President for the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources (SEASR). Prior to that, she served as the Sponsor Coordinator for SEASR (2018-2021). She is also the Program Coordinator of the Atlanta Athens Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (AAMSDG). Pritha is a graduate of the 2020 Aspiring Leaders at Emory program and received a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate in 2022.