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Dr. Shreya Raghavan is an Assistant Professor and holds the Cain Faculty Fellowship II in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is also a Scholar in the Regional Excellence Center for Cancer at Texas A&M University. She has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Wake Forest University/Virginia Tech and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. At Texas A&M, the Raghavan lab engineers mechanically competent microenvironments to advance our understanding of human and veterinary health. Her approaches integrate mechanobiology, biomaterials and microenvironment engineering to ask questions that intersect the cancer stem cell/immune axis. Her work is funded by the NIH/NCI through an R37 MERIT award, the Department of Defense, and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. She is an award winning scientist, recognized by the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society and the Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award.

In the BME classroom, Dr. Raghavan is recognized for her inclusive pedagogy by the Montague Scholars Award from Texas A&M University. She serves as the Chair of the DEI committee in the Society for Biomaterials, where she advocates for accessibility and equity. Through several roles in the BME UNITE Collective, Dr. Raghavan works actively towards dismantling systemic processes that hold academics behind in STEM.