Rate My Professor Aravind Asokan

Aravind Asokan is Professor in Surgery, Director of Gene Therapy, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He is also an affiliate of the Duke Regeneration Center. Asokan earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. His research focuses on synthetic virology and gene therapy, with interests in virology, RNA biology, viral engineering, RNA engineering, gene editing, gene regulation, and regenerative medicine.

Asokan was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2025. He leads the Asokan Lab, which engineers biological macromolecules and viruses for applications in human gene therapy. His work includes the development and characterization of adeno-associated virus vectors for targeted gene delivery across various tissues and disease models.