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Saanvi Sethi, BS

Undergraduate Student

College of Medicine

Contact

Building & Room:

COMRB, Room 5160

Address:

909 S Wolcott Ave, Chicago, IL, 60612

About

Saanvi is an incoming medical student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago campus with a Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Spanish for the Professions. She has been involved in research for many years with Dr. Gadi's lab and have got to work on many different projects along the way. Throughout her undergraduate career at UIC, she was also able to work on a capstone project that focused on the application of BME in Dermatology practices. Outside of school and research, she enjoys trying new coffee shops in Chicago, going on walks with friends and family, practicing Bharatanatyam, and reading. She is excited to start her medical school journey at UIC while still continuing research.

Education

Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago, United States. May 2026

Selected Presentations

1st Place (Undergraduate level) American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin of Queens and Long Island Eighth Research Competition. - “Development and Validation of Murine Breast Cancer Model for HER2 Low MBC.”

Maria Jose Godoy-Calderon, Abhigna Kodali, Manali Patwardhan, Saanvi Sethi, Meredith Russell, Eric Gauchat, Michelle Karan, Zhengjia Chen, Oana Danciu, Kent Hoskins, Abiola Ibraheem, VK Gadi. AACR Annual Meeting 2026. Title: Window of Opportunity Trial of Preoperative Low Dose Azacitidine in High-Risk Early-Stage Breast Cancer.

Maria Jose Godoy-Calderon, Manali Patwardhan, Shruti Rodrigues, Saanvi Sethi, Eric Gauchat, VK Gadi. AACR Annual Meeting 2026. Title: Surface engineered-NK/trastuzumab cells as a novel immunotherapy for HER2-low breast cancer.