Pancreas Cancer Web: Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D.

Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Departments of Biological Chemistry and Oncology. He obtained his medical degree from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India and completed his residency in Clinical Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He carried out his Ph.D. work with Vishva Dixit at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Harvey Lodish at the Whitehead Institute at MIT. He was a Visiting Scientist in the group of Matthias Mann at the University of Southern Denmark before joining Johns Hopkins in 2002. Dr. Pandey has received the Experimental Pathologist-In-Training award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology and the Howard Temin Award from the National Cancer Institute. He currently holds the Kimmel Scholar and the Beckman Young Investigator Awards.

Dr. Pandey's research focuses on the use of mass spectrometry for identification of identification of biomarkers in pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers. His other research interests include signal transduction, bioinformatics, databases and genome annotation.

Contact Information:

Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Broadway Research Building
733 N. Broadway, BRB 569
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone: 410-502-6662
Fax: 410-502-7544
E-mail: pandey@jhmi.edu
Pandey Lab Homepage: www.hprd.org/pandeylab