Dr. Agrawal is a Professor in the Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, and a member of the Institute of Immunology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. in India, where she studied liposome-based drug delivery for macrophage-targeted infections, sparking her interest in immunology. She further trained in France in tumor immunology and completed her postdoctoral work at the Emory Vaccine Center under Dr. Pulendran, developing expertise in dendritic cells and innate immunity. At UC Irvine, Dr. Agrawal leads an independent research program focused on innate immunity in aging and its role in disease. Her work examines the decline in respiratory immune responses with age and how interactions between immune and epithelial cells drive lung inflammation, infection susceptibility, and tissue injury. Her research also extends to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Her laboratory has contributed to understanding how airway epithelial cells regulate immune function and modulate lung immunity. Dr. Agrawal serves as Chief Editor for Mediators in Inflammation and Specialty Chief Editor for the immunology section of Frontiers in Aging.