She obtained her PhD in Chemical from MIT and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School. She is in how cells integrate microenvironmental cues – both molecular and biomechanical – to signal, organise, and form functional patterns. Her lab has demonstrated a role for interstitial flow in lymphatic capillary organisation, cell organisation in tissue culture and directed chemotaxis of cell towards lymphatics, which has implications in cancer metastasis and immune function.