Kuruvilla completed a bachelor of science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata in 1987.
[1] Her dissertation was titled "Studies on arachidonic acid depletion in diabetic rat nerve and human Schwann cells cultured in elevated glucose."
[2] Kuruvilla completed postdoctoral research on neurotrophin signaling in sympathetic neurons at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the lab of David Ginty.
[3] Kuruvilla is a professor of biology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Her studies explore endocytic trafficking of neurotrophins in nervous system maintenance.