Kuldeep Sachdeva, Ph.D.

Kuldeep completed his undergraduate studies in Biotechnology at the Kurukshetra University in India followed by a master’s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at CCS Haryana Agriculture University (CCSHAU). Under the supervision of Professor Virendra K. Sikka at CCSHAU, Kuldeep pathotyped the leaf-curl virus strains in cotton leaf-curl disease samples. In 2014, Kuldeep joined the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS | TIFR) at Bengaluru, India for his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Varadharajan Sundaramurthy. There, he investigated modulations in the host Endo-Lysosomal network upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis (the tuberculosis disease-causing pathogen) infection in both in vitro and in vivo model systems. Kuldeep has now joined Professor Ralph Nixon’s group at the Nathan Kline Institute and will be working on Alzheimer’s disease.