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Rahul A. Patel, MD

Resident
Albany Medical Center
Burlington, NJ, United States

Dr. Rahul A. Patel, MD is a PGY-1 otolaryngology resident at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York. Rahul received his undergraduate degree in biology from New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York. During his time working in the biomedical sciences lab of Qiangrong Liang MD, PhD at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine he worked to characterize the role of metformin on autophagy and mitophagy in cardiomyocytes. This work led to presentation of the abstract “Metformin inhibits autophagy and mitophagy in cardiomyocytes” at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego, California. Rahul also spent time in the undergraduate labs of Bryan Gibb PhD, where he assessed the effectiveness of genetically engineered B. subtilis ZB183 in promoting metabolism of acetaldehyde to acetate in the human gut, and Claude E. Gagna PhD, where he performed dissections and documented mammalian and non-mammalian eye globes using a high-energy micro-CT scanner. Rahul attended medical school at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in North Haven, Connecticut, where he pursued his research interests in otolaryngology under the mentorship of R. Peter Manes, MD, FACS in the Division of Otolaryngology at Yale School of Medicine.

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