Rita V. Krishnamurthi is a New Zealand academic, and since 2023 is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in the epidemiology of stroke and dementia.

Krishnamurthi completed a PhD titled Treatment Effects of the N-terminal tripeptide of insulin-like growth factor-1, GPE, in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease at the University of Auckland in 2006.

[1] Krishnamurthi then moved to Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in 2023.

[4] Krishnamurthi was a co-investigator in the National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, led by Valery Feigin, that won the Te Pūiaki Putaiao Matua a te Pirimia Science Prize in the 2022 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.

The $500,000 prize is awarded to "an individual or team for a transformative scientific discovery or achievement, which has had a significant economic, health, social and/or environmental impact on New Zealand and/or internationally".