He is the Bernard and Mildred Kayden MGH Research Institute Chair[1] and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He founded and serves as the Chief of the Stanbury Physician-Scientist Pathway[2] at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine.
Rajagopal received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in biochemical sciences from Harvard College, with Hoopes and Henderson Prizes for his work with Jack Szostak and Jennifer Doudna concerning the mechanism of ribozyme catalysis.
He, alongside Darrell Kotton, described the first protocols to direct the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to airway epithelium.
[9] He and Aviv Regiv discovered pulmonary ionocytes and airway hillocks by marrying developmental and computational biology through the use of single cell sequencing technology.