Krithi Irmady, M.D., Ph.D.

Krithi Irmady is an assistant professor and a physician-scientist at the Rockefeller University. She received her medical degree from Mysore Medical College in India and her doctoral degree in neuroscience from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. She completed her residency in neurology at Yale University, followed by a movement disorders fellowship at Columbia University and a master’s degree in clinical and translational research at the Rockefeller University.

Irmady’s research program seeks to understand how RNA regulation shapes synaptic plasticity and neuronal function. She is investigating how RNA-binding proteins control cell-type-specific RNA processing in the brain, and how these mechanisms influence resilience and vulnerability during cognitive and motor aging. By integrating genomics and molecular neuroscience, her work seeks to identify RNA-based mechanisms that can be targeted to preserve brain function with aging.

Irmady’s research is currently supported by the National Institutes of Health through a K08 award, the Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty Award and the George C. Cotzias Fellowship from the American Parkinson Disease Association. Her work has previously received support from the American Academy of Neurology and the Bumpus Foundation.