Rabindra Khadka, PhD

419 LSE 

Stillwater OK 74078

rabindra.khadka [at] okstate.edu

Rabi is from Dhangadhi, Nepal. After completing his master’s degree, Rabi worked as a QC Microbiologist at Mylan Laboratories Limited (now part of Viatris Inc., a leading global sterile API company) for two years, where he faced US FDA and several other pharmaceutical industry regulatory audits several times. Having some experience and mastering the fundamental concepts & techniques, he hopes to later work as an R&D research scientist. He studied the molecular properties of stressosomes—large cytoplasmic environmental-stress-sensing complexes—in Bacillus subtilis and discovered that stressosomes are not strictly required for environmental stress sensing. Rabi has a reputation for being an excellent TA and mentor in the MMG department. He has won the departmental TA of the Year award (2020 and 2022) and Outstanding Graduate Mentor award (2022 and runner-up 2023) several times. He was also awarded the MMG Departmental Ed & Mary Grula Fellowship Award (2022-2023) and the Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (DGF) (2023-2024). He earned his PhD in August 2024 and then served as a postdoctoral associate in the lab. In 2025, he departed the lab to take a postdoctoral position in the Ann Stock lab at Rutgers.