George Kanianthara Chandy MBBS, PhD

Professor George Chandy graduated from Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore, one of the premier medical schools in India. After graduation, he joined a Virology laboratory at CMC which piqued his interest in research. He then pursed his PhD at the University of Birmingham, Department of Immunology. In 1983, he moved to the University of California Irvine ( UC Irvine) as a postdoctoral clinician-scientist researcher in the Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, where he did clinical work in the Division’s Clinic while pursuing research under the laboratory of the Division Chief, Professor Sudhir Gupta. He moved to the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at UC Irvine in 1990 and was eventually promoted to Professor.

Prof Chandy is an elected member in the Henry Kunkei Society and has been awarded the Athalie Clarke Award: Excellence in Research. His paper has been published on various highly distinguished publications such as Nature, Science and Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has also been listed in Thomson Reuters’s report on World Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 as one of the Highly Cited Researchers.