Dr. Chandra is an assistant professor of Physiology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science with joint appointments in the Departments of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, and Geriatrics and Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Chandra received his doctorate from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan, and subsequent postdoctoral trainings at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Rutgers and University of Pennsylvania in USA. He has been felicitated with several awards acknowledging his research including the prestigious Harold Frost Award, Young Investigator Awards from American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, Endocrine Fellows Foundation, and the Webster Jee Award. Dr. Chandra has published 31 full length peer reviewed research articles and a book chapter. The current research of Dr. Chandra focuses on the pathophysiology of bone loss due to aging, and on mechanisms underlying radiotherapy-induced bone damage which includes identifying senescence associated markers with acute and chronic senescence in cancer survivors.