Roopali Ghandi , Ph.D.

Instructor in Neurology

Center for Neurologic Diseases
Brigham and Women's Hospital
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, HIM-720
Boston, MA 02115

T: 617.525.5717
F: 617.525.5305
E:rgandhi@rics.bwh.harvard.edu


Education

1996 B.Sc. in Microbiology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
1998 M.Sc. in Fermentation and Microbial Technology, GNDU, Amritsar, India
2004 Ph.D. in Immunology, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India
2004-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA

Major research interests:

Innate Immune System in Autoimmune Diseases

Publications:

Gandhi R, Hussain E, Das J, Handa R, Pal R. Anti-idiotype-mediated epitope spreading and diminished phagocytosis by a human monoclonal antibody recognizing late-stage apoptotic cells. Cell Death Differ. 2006 Oct;13(10):1715-26.

Ochi H, Abraham M, Ishikawa H, Frenkel D, Yang K, Basso AS, Wu H, Chen ML, Gandhi R, Miller A, Maron R, Weiner HL. Oral CD3-specific antibody suppresses autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing CD4+CD25-LAP+ T cells. Nature Med. 2006 Jun;12(6):627-35.

Gandhi R, Anderson DE, Weiner HL. Cutting Edge: Immature human dendritic cells express latency-associated peptide and inhibit T cell activation in a TGF-beta-dependent manner. J. Immunol. 2007 Apr 1;178(7):4017-21.

Abraham M, Karni A, Dembinsky A, Miller A, Gandhi R, Anderson D, Weiner HL. In vitro induction of regulatory T cells by anti-CD3 antibody in humans. J. Autoimmun. 2008 Jan 9;30(1-2F):21-28.

Vaknin-Dembinsky A, Brass S, Gandhi R, Weiner HL. Membrane bound IL-15 is increased on CD14 monocytes in early stages of MS. J. Neuroimmunol. 2008 Mar;195(1-2):135-9.