Aditi Sahu


Aditi Sahu is a senior research scientist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Her research focuses on non-invasive imaging technologies for diagnosing skin cancers and research on tumor microenvironments. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and recognized with research awards in dermatology and optics engineering.

Biography

After completing her PhD studies, she joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017.
At MSK, Sahu has conducted research on advanced optical imaging techniques, including reflectance confocal microscopy and other high-resolution modalities, to enhance the detection and characterization of skin cancers. Her work on tumor microenvironments in skin cancers was published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Her research on optical coherence tomography has been published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics and Journal of Nuclear Imaging.
In 2019 and 2021, projects for which she was principal investigator received Dermatology Fellowship awards from the Melanoma Research Alliance. She was awarded the Ashley Trenner Research Grant Award by the Skin Cancer Foundation; based in the United States, in October 2022.
In 2025, she co-authored a publication on in vivo vascular biology imaging using super-high magnification dermatoscopy techniques.

Awards

Sahu's research at MSK was recognized by the Society of Optics and Photonics and was awarded Best Translational Research at the SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco. In 2018 and 2025, she earned a full scholarship for the Women in Photonics Workshop in Germany, organized by IPHT Jena.