Sandeep Moothedath Subrahmanian, PhD

Dr. Sandeep Moothedath Subrahmanian, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Dennis in the Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine. He earned his master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Calicut, Calicut, India, in 2010 and completed his doctorate in biochemistry in 2019 at the University of Mysore, Mysuru, India. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Subrahmanian focused on the impact of maternal diabetes on proteoglycans in the fetal brain and the long-term implications of in-utero conditions on offspring development. Following his graduate training, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and in the Department of Orthopedics at Penn State. His prior postdoctoral research was focused on TGFß and PEDF growth factors signaling in cellular reprogramming. In 2022, Dr. Subrahmanian  joined Dr. Dennis' lab, where he collaborates closely with his co-mentors Dr. Barber and Dr. Sundstrom from Ophthalmology. Dr. Subrahmanian's current research at Penn State is dedicated to investigating signaling events contributing to retinal oxidative stress and inflammation in age-related macular degeneration. Dr.  Subrahmanian previously received a pilot grant from the Comprehensive Health Studies Program at Penn State.