Priya grew up in Bengaluru, India, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology before moving to the United States to pursue graduate studies. She completed her PhD in Chemistry at Purdue University with Gaurav Chopra, where she was an Eli Lilly-Stark Neurosciences Predoctoral Research Fellow. Her doctoral work combined chemistry and neuroscience to investigate how toxic amyloid-β alters microglial function, leading to the discovery of a lipid droplet-mediated mechanism that impairs microglial activity in Alzheimer’s disease.

For her postdoctoral training, Priya worked with Shane Liddelow at the Institute for Translational Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she was a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellow. There, she expanded her research to investigate the roles of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes in neurodegenerative disease, identifying myelin dysregulation as a key feature of a rare movement disorder X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism.

Priya's research seeks to understand how glial lipid biology supports brain health and how disruption of lipid pathways contributes to neurodegenerative disease.