Vimal Pandiyan, PhD

Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India 2006. Master of Engineering, Medical Electronics, Anna University, Chennai, India 2011.

Graduate Education: PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India, 2017

Post-Doctoral Education: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA, 2017-2022

Dr. Pandiyan was born and raised in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering and Master’s in Medical Electronics from Anna University, Chennai, India. He earned his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, developing a digital holographic microscope for three-dimensional volumetric imaging of living cells. Following his doctorate, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he combined adaptive optics with optical coherence tomography to create a retinal camera for measuring the light-induced retinal function in a living human at a cellular scale.

Vision Science Center
University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology
750 Republican St. Bldg. E, Room 221D
Box 358058 Seattle, WA 98109-8058
Main Reception Tel: 206-897-1327
Email: vimalbme@uw.edu

ARVO 2021 Travel Grant Awardee

ARVO 2020 Outstanding Poster Award finalist

IITH student excellence award for the academic year 2013, 2014, 2015

IITH, international travel grant for SPIE Biophotonics- 2015

Ph.D. Research Fellowship from MHRD, Govt. of India (2011-2016)

Silver Medalist in Master of Engineering

Dr. Pandiyan is working with the Sabesan lab group, which focuses on how the human retina enables the fundamental yet intricate aspects of our daily vision - color, motion, and so on - and how such visual capacities are disrupted by retinal disease.

Dr. Pandiyan developed an imaging tool that can measure the functional activity of individual retinal cells in living humans. This high-resolution tool can be used to identify biomarkers for early disease diagnosis and evaluation of therapeutic intervention in treating blinding retinal disorders.

Sabesan Lab: https://www.sablab.ophthalmology.uw.edu/

Location:

South Lake Union
University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology
750 Republican St. Bldg. E, Room 221D
Box 358058 Seattle, WA 98109-8058
Main Reception Tel: 206-897-1327
Email: vimalbme@uw.edu