Sayan Gosh, PhD

Bio

Dr. Sayan Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological and Vision Sciences at the SUNY College of Optometry. His research focuses on uncovering the molecular and immunological mechanisms underlying retinal degenerative diseases, with a particular emphasis on age-related macular degeneration (AMD). His laboratory integrates cell biology, immunology, and translational neuroscience to investigate how organelle dysfunction and immune activation contribute to AMD onset and progression and how environmental stressors influence these processes, with the goal of identifying mechanism-based therapeutic targets.

He has received several prestigious honors, including the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship, the BrightFocus Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Macular Degeneration, and the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. Prior to joining SUNY, he completed postdoctoral training at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and served as junior faculty at the Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he established an independent research program in retinal pigment epithelium biology and inflammatory signaling.

Dr. Ghosh earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience, as well as his M.S. in Neuroscience (summa cum laude) and B.S. in Microbiology, from the University of Calcutta, India.