He received his Ph.D. from Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University and performed a post-doctorate fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill with Terry Magnuson. Dr. Kalantry’s laboratory studies X-inactivation as well as other epigenetic processes that characterize the early embryo using mouse models. Dr. Kalantry is the recipient of an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2), an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, and a March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award.