Tega Chanai (she/her)

Undergraduate Student
tega.chanai[at]princeton.edu

Tega was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States when she was seven years old. She’s from Orlando, Florida and is a member of Princeton’s Class of 2029. She plans to major in Neuroscience and is interested in studying developmental biology and neuro-immune interactions. In particular, she wants to uncover how regenerative healing in the skin parallels that in the central nervous system of mammalian models, such as the link between failed efferocytosis in delayed wound healing and Alzheimer’s disease.

In the Mesa Lab, she is focussed on understanding the mechanisms of wound healing. She is currently studying how regenerative healing in mammalian skin differs across ages, and the role of macrophages and other immune cells in this healing process.

In her free time, Tega likes creative writing, reading fiction novels, and exploring nature.