Kavita Rao is a world-renowned geneticist from India who developed a serum (later called "Hope") to "cure" mutants, turning them into normal humans.
Dr. Rao's work was destroyed by Wolverine, leaving Hank with the last sample of "Hope", although he remains uncertain whether or not he will use it at some point.
[volume & issue needed] Kavita Rao was pictured alongside several super-villains to whom Beast offers to 'sell his soul' for a means to un-do the effects of M-Day.
[volume & issue needed] After Beast has finished gathering his science squad, they head back to base where he introduces them to their final member, Kavita Rao.
[5] When Cable and Hope Summers return to the present, Bastion begins to set his plan in motion in exterminating the mutant race.
[volume & issue needed] Arriving on Utopia, it is revealed that the dystopian future is a lie created by Graydon Creed using holographic hard-light technology.
[13] In the "Age of X" reality, Kavita Rao is branded as a traitor to humanity for allying with the mutants, helping Wolverine eliminate an anti-mutant toxin.
[14] Kavita Rao appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men episode "Battle Lines", voiced by Susan Dalian.