Sandeep Kishore

Sandeep “Sunny” Kishore  studies social epigenetics, of how behaviors and their molecular signatures are inherited across generations -- from malaria to mankind. Before that, he  had been a founder of a global health organization, a Delegate to the UN General Assembly, a Fellow at MIT Dalai Lama Center for Ethics & Transformative Values and resident physician in internal medicine  at Yale University .  Before that, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School where he directed the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, which currently includes 2, 500  members from over 1 35  countries committed to the equitable prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases as a social justice issue. His PhD research focused on the evolution of malaria parasitism in humans , for which he was awarded the Sarber prize for most outstanding PhD student by the American Society of Microbiology . Sunny was a TEDMED 2012 speaker a nd now serves on the TEDMED Editorial Advisory Board & Medical Advisory Board of The Huffington Post. HIs work has been featured in Scientific American and in JAMA, The Lancet, Nature Reviews series and PLoS Medicine.

He is  a graduate of Duke University (B.S.) and Oxford University (M.Sc.) and the MD-PhD program of Weill Cornell / Rockefeller University / Sloan Kettering Institute. His dream is to help the next generation realize its dreams; and to pay it forward across generations.