Sastry received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Lineberger Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC, where where she studied the function of a protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTP-PEST, in cytoskeletal regulation during cell motility.
Sastry SK Lakonishok M, Thomas DA, Muschler JL, Horwitz AF.
Sastry SK, Burridge K. Focal adhesions: a nexus for intracellular signaling and cytoskeletal dynamics.
Sastry was born in Andhra, India, and received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Chemical Technology from Andhra University.
Sastry also investigated the impact of smoking on amino acid transport in the human placenta and the impact of maternal tobacco smoking on the induction and functioning of these transport mechanisms.
Sastry is survived by his wife, Annette Sastry; daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Jim Armstrong; son, William Sastry; three sisters and one brother.
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