Affiliation: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Sarvesh Chelvanambi obtained his BA in Zoology with a minor in Finance at Miami University (Ohio) in 2011 and his Masters in Biotechnology at The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Sarvesh completed his PhD at the Indiana University School of Medicine in the lab of Dr. Matthias Clauss in 2019. He studied the role of extracellular vesicles in promoting HIV-related endothelial dysfunction, which could be rescued with statin treatment. In 2019, Sarvesh joined Dr. Masanori Aikawa’s research group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a post-doctoral research fellow. Sarvesh is investigating whether viral proteins alter macrophage heterogeneity and serve as a major contributor toward the increased prevalence of cardiovascular diseases among patients.