Ajai Dandekar, M.D., Ph. D.

assistant professor

principal investigator

Dr. Dandekar holds a BA from Stanford University and MD and PhD degrees from the University of Iowa. As a graduate student, he studied the pathogenesis of a viral demyelinating disease of mice. He moved to Seattle for an Internal Medicine residency and, subsequently, a Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine fellowship.

Dr. Dandekar joined the lab of Pete Greenberg for postdoctoral training as part of his Pulmonary fellowship in 2009 and then joined the faculty in Medicine and Microbiology in 2012. Although most of his effort is on research activities, he continues to see patients in the UWMC cystic fibrosis clinic. In his young career, Dr. Dandekar has received several awards, including a LeRoy Matthews award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a young physician-scientist award from the American Society for Clinical Investigaion, and a Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists.

quorum sensing • microbial sociality: cooperation & conflict