Rajesh Ambasudhan, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dr. Ambasudhan is a stem cell biologist working in the field of neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stroke. His lab has established patient specific disease-in-a-dish models of these diseases using novel cell-reprogramming technologies, and has been using them a) to understand disease mechanisms, and b) for developing effective therapies.

Prior to joining Scintillon he was a neuroscience and stem cell research faculty at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. He received his post-doctoral training in stem cell biology and drug discovery at the Scripps Research Institute and training in functional genomics relating to neurodegenerative conditions from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.