She was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1997 and serves as the Editor of the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology.
Roy was a postdoctoral student at the University of Minnesota, where she worked in fatty acid synthesis.
After four years as an assistant professor at the IIT, Roy moved to the United Kingdom, where she joined the University of Westminster.
Such polymers exist at two different molecular weights, which have very different materials properties; with short-chains being brittle and mid length chains being elastomeric.
[4] Roy has worked alongside Sian Harding, Carolyn Carr and Molly Stevens at Imperial College London on the design of cardiac patches based on PHAs as platforms for cell engraftment and the controlled delivery of pharmaceuticals using PHA microspheres.