Chair, Department of Pharmacology, John H. Hord Professor and Chair, School of Medicine

Director, Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core

Director, Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology

School of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University
Wood Building W321A

Office: (216) 368-4631

Sudha Chakrapani received her Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai India in 1999. She then moved to the US for her doctoral work with Tony Auerbach at the University at Buffalo on single-channel kinetic studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. She then went on to do her postdoctoral research with Eduardo Perozo at University of Virginia, and moved with the lab to University of Chicago. Here, she was trained in EPR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, and studied gating mechanisms in potassium channels and voltage-gated sodium channels. 

In 2010, Sudha started her independent position at Case Western Reserve University. In her free time, Sudha loves to spend time with her young kids, travel, and cook for her family and friends.