Sunil Gandhi
Co-founder @Translucence Biosystems
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WORK HISTORY
Co-founder @Translucence Biosystems
Irvine, CA, US
Enabling the dimensional shift from 2D to 3D tissue histology, developing tissue clearing methods, assays, imaging technology, machine learning-enabled data processing tools and novel methods for big data statistical analysis of spatial anatomy.
EDUCATION
Stanford University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Neurosciences
UC San Diego
Ph.D., Neurosciences
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology Department, Dr. Michael Stryker
ABOUT SUNIL GANDHI
Dr. Gandhi has focused his scientific career on developing cell technology to tap the brain’s latent capacity to rewire itself. He received his graduate training with Charles Stevens, MD, PhD, at the Salk Institute where he studied the fundamental mechanisms of neurotransmitter release. As a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Stryker’s lab at UCSF, he made the exciting discovery that young interneurons implanted in older brains induced a rejuvenating period of brain plasticity. With the support of a New Innovator Award from the NIH Director, a Searle Scholars Award, and other prestigious grants, he has pioneered the use of embryonic inhibitory neuron transplantation to rewire the adult visual system. His lab discovered that transplanted inhibitory neurons successfully integrate into the circuitry of the adult host brain and correct developmental miswiring of the visual system in mice. More recently, the group has developed new methods for whole brain visualization using new brain clearing methods and light sheet microscopy. To disseminate these technologies to the neuroscience community, he has co-founded a BRAIN Initiative supported startup company Translucence Biosystems. The company successfully partnered with Zeiss Microscopy to develop and co-market a new microscopy system for higher resolution, faster light sheet microscopy of large, cleared samples.
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