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Berkeley Lab scientist Niju Narayanan passes away
Tributes from colleagues, friends, and associates poured in, celebrating Narayanan’s personal and professional contributions.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Thu, 19, Feb 2026
- 04:31 EST
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Indian-origin scientist Niju Narayanan / Instagram/@moham_california
Indian-origin scientist Niju Narayanan died at the age of 48 on Feb. 12 in Mountain House, California.
Narayanan earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and her doctoral research there was based on improving protein production in E. coli, for which she received the Murray Moo-Young Biotechnology Scholarship.
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Narayanan, a chemical and biochemical engineer, served as a Project Scientist at Berkeley Lab from June 2021 to 2024, where she worked on advanced interdisciplinary research projects.
Narayanan has previously spent four years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, serving as a UC–LANL Entrepreneurial Fellow from 2019 to 2021 and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2017 to 2019, contributing to national-level research initiatives, including working with the Agile BioFoundry.
She also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2016.
Her MS research at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi focused on microbial processes for lactic acid production.
Her funeral service was held at Fry Memorial Chapel, Tracy, along with a public viewing on Feb. 17 and on Feb. 18, followed by the funeral rites.
Tributes from colleagues, friends, and associates poured in, celebrating Narayanan’s personal and professional contributions.
A message on the Tribute Wall of her obituary on the Fry Memorial Chapel website read,
“In loving memory of Niju, brilliant scientist, your curiosity, kindness, and dedication inspired us all. Rest in peace. From Your IIT Delhi friends.”
MoHAM, a community service organization set up for Malayali families of Kerala origin living in and around Mountain House, also shared a tribute on its official social media account.
Narayanan’s cause of death is yet to be revealed. She is survived by her husband, Sivana Sreejith, from Chala, and her children are Arshiya Sreejith and Arjun Sreejith.
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