Pujita Munnangi, MD, MS
RESIDENT
Surgery
School of Medicine

Pujita Munnangi is a general surgery resident at UCSF. Dr. Munnangi has a BS in Bioengineering from Rice University (graduated 2021), with minor in biochemistry. She received her MEng in Interdiscplinary Engineering and MD from the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine in 2025. Her research interests include medical device development, diagnostic and therapeutic tools in surgical oncology, and surgical ergonomics.

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2025
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, 2021

Education & Training

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• MD Doctor of Medicine Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine 05/2025
• MEng Master of Engineering Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine 05/2025
• BS Bioengineering, Biochemistry & Cell Biology Rice University 05/2021

Publications (3)

Top publication keywords:
Stem Cell TransplantationCryosurgeryDrug Delivery SystemsInsulin-Secreting CellsBody FluidsPancreas, ArtificialElectrochemistrySepharoseElectrolysisDrug LiberationHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationSodium ChlorideTissue ScaffoldsPolymersIslets of Langerhans

• A Scalable Platform for Fabricating Biodegradable Microparticles with Pulsatile Drug Release.
  Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 2023 Graf TP, Qiu SY, Varshney D, Laracuente ML, Euliano EM, Munnangi P, Pogostin BH, Baryakova T, Garyali A, McHugh KJ
• Superporous agarose scaffolds for encapsulation of adult human islets and human stem-cell-derived β cells for intravascular bioartificial pancreas applications.
  Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A 2021 Shaheen R, Gurlin RE, Gologorsky R, Blaha C, Munnangi P, Santandreu A, Torres A, Carnese P, Nair GG, Szot G, Fissell WH, Hebrok M, Roy S
• An Electrochemistry Study of Cryoelectrolysis in Frozen Physiological Saline.
  IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2016 Manuel TJ, Munnangi P, Rubinsky B