Dr. Gooptu attended medical school at Kolkata Medical College in India, followed by a residency at Albert Einstein Medical College and fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University. She completed an advanced fellowship in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is currently an attending physician in the adult SCT division. Dr. Gooptu's research interests include post-transplantation immune reconstitution, haploidentical transplantation and autologous transplantation for severe autoimmune disorders.