Prof. Dr. Amit V Pandey

Amit V. Pandey received his B.Sc. in chemistry and physics (1990) and an M.Sc. in biochemistry (1992) from the University of Lucknow, followed by doctoral studies at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, on cytochrome P450 and heme metabolism. Following postdoctoral research at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) working on CYP17A1 and androgen regulation with Prof. Walter L Miller, he began his career at the University of Bern in 2005, obtaining his habilitation in endocrinology in 2010. He is currently the head of steroid biochemistry and growth hormone research laboratories at the University Children’s Hospital Bern and a professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on androgen regulation in humans and pharmacogenomics of steroid and drug-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes.