The Ellison Clinic will be closed for Winter Recess beginning Monday, Dec. 23 at 5 p.m. and will resume regular operations on Friday, Jan. 3 at 8:30 a.m. For any urgent matters, please call the answering service at (310) 272-7640(310) 272-7640 to get connected with your provider.
Ellison Institute of Technology

Vaidhyanathan Mahaganapathy, PhD

Computational Biologist, Genomics

Dr. Vaidhyanathan Mahaganapathy is a Computational Biologist with a special focus on Genomics for the Ellison Medical Institute’s Bioanalytics team. Vaidhy provides technical and knowledge support to the numerous sequencing projects at the Institute and works on data quality control and analysis.

Prior to pursuing graduate studies, Vaidhy worked as a Computational Chemist in a small molecule cancer drug discovery start-up. Vaidhy earned a BTech in Biotechnology and a MTech in Bioinformatics from SASTRA University (India), before graduating with a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

When off the clock, Vaidhy loves cooking, baking, going on long drives and exploring the world around him.