Akhilesh Pandey MD, PhD

Dr. Akhilesh Pandey is a professor of biological chemistry, oncology and pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Pandey’s research focuses on global analysis of signal transduction pathways using mass spectrometry as well as bioinformatics, sequence databases and annotation.

Dr. Pandey earned his medical degree from Armed Forces Medical College and completed his residency in pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in molecular biology. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Harvey Lodish at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

Dr. Pandey developed the SILAC method for quantitative proteomics and methods to characterize signaling pathways in a global fashion using mass spectrometry-based proteomic methods. Dr. Pandey''s laboratory is known for taking a systems biology approach by combining many “-omics” technologies.

He has received numerous prestigious awards including the Experimental Pathologist-In-Training Award by the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Howard Temin Award from the National Cancer Institute, and the Sidney Kimmel Scholar Award by the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research. He has also received the Era of Hope Scholar Award by the United States Department of Defense.