Dr. Soumya Pati gained her PhD from the University of Delhi & National Institute of Immunology during 2009, in the area of Biomedical Sciences, and got extensive training in reconstitution of hematopoietic system in lethally irradiated host using genetically manipulated hematopoietic stem cells. Following this she joined the Dept.of Neuroscience, School of Medical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia as a postdoctoral fellow and worked in the area involving "isolation and long-term maintenance of embryonic stratial stem cells (ESSCs) from E18 rat embryod to study crucial factors that governs neurogenic poetntial of striatum, also known as "third area in the neurogenesis, or the area where new neurons are born". Her work led to discovery of novel microRNAs crucial for ESSCs maintainance in brain. During her tenure, she recieved many grant awards to support her research work at USM. In 2011, she joined Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA to work on “detection of novel biomarkers in idiopathic autism using integrative system biology”. Based on her preliminary findings she received one of the prestigious grant award from Autism Speaks foundation as an independent investigator, USA. During her tenure, she also worked as a visiting fellow for two months in Stanford University to get advanced training in generation and characterization of patient-derived iPSCs.

At present, Dr.Pati's group works in the area of neurological disease modeling, and trying to address many unsolved queries of human brain such as, i) important players controlling microglial biology and behavior across the human brain ages, ii) regulatory factors underlying microglia-dependent neuroinflammation, iii) deciphering metabolic biomarkers in neural fate specifications of human brain and their implications in neurological diseases.

As a part of collaborative research, Dr.Pati's laboratory is also commited towards desiging cellular disease models to understand host-pathogen intreractions underlying deadly parasitic diseases such as cerebral malaria and kalazar. Dr.Pati has published 25 publications, 2 patents; 1 published and the other filed and two book chapters.