Pravat Kumar Mandal, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Department of Neurological Surgery, and Radiology, University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Dr. Mandal is a Tata Innovation Fellow and has developed the Indian Brain Template BRAHMA, the big data analytics BHARAT, and the brain imaging-based database and data analytics SWADESH. He has worked on medical image analysis and developed novel technology for brain neurochemical signal processing. He has one patent granted by the United States Patent Office as well as the European Union Patent office.
The seminal work of Dr. Mandal is the identification of glutathione depletion in the hippocampus as an early diagnostic biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease. He also identified biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease patients by noninvasive imaging technique to map iron and glutathione.
He is working for setting up unique multinuclear MRS facility (at MRRC) involving various nuclei (1H; 31P; 19F; 13C; 7Li and 23Na) and their potential clinical applications.
- Ph.D. - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Education & Training
His research publications are available in the Google Scholar(https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=3iK6uSMAAAAJ&hl=en)
Dr. Mandal’s major research areas include brain neurochemical profile; brain pH; brain iron mapping and clinical correlation; healthy aging marker; mild cognitive impairment; Alzheimer’s disease; brain trauma and repetitive head injury; and Parkinson’s disease.
Currently, Dr. Mandal is conducting two clinical trials,
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07050173
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