Navdeep S. Chandel

Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology at Northwestern University

Navdeep S. Chandel, Ph.D., is a professor of medicine and cell biology at Northwestern University, where he studies energy metabolism, obesity and diabetes. Dr. Chandel's research has pushed the boundaries of our understanding of how energy metabolism is regulated in health and disease, identified new genes and pathways involved in energy production, explored the relationship between obesity and diabetes, and investigated the key environmental factors that can affect energy balance. Dr. Chandel's work has spanned groundbreaking discoveries in mitochondrial enzymes and pathways, as well as identifying novel genetic associations between diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Dr. Chandel has been honored with a number of prestigious awards, including being named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and being selected as a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in Translational Research. Dr. Chandel is also the author of numerous scientific publications and has received numerous grants to pursue his research. His research has been published in some of the top journals in the field, including Cell Metabolism, Nature Genetics, and Cell Reports. Dr. Chandel is an avid speaker and mentor at national and international conferences, workshops, and symposia. He regularly mentors junior faculty and students and actively engages with collaboration partners to further improve our understanding of metabolic disorders. His passion for medicine and science make Dr. Chandel a leader in his field, and he is dedicated to applying his discoveries to create new methods of diagnosis and treatments in the medical community.