69366-Poudel, Chetan

Chetan Poudel, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Scientific Director, Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy (ICBM)

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Indianapolis, IN
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Bio

Dr. Chetan Poudel is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University. He also serves as the Scientific Director of the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy (ICBM), a state-of-the-art microscopy core located within R2 Nephrology that supports over 100 research laboratories across Indiana.

Prior to joining IU, Dr. Poudel was a Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, where he developed fluorescence imaging techniques and AI-based analytical methods to investigate kidney structure and function. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where his work focused on building high-throughput microscopy platforms to study neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Poudel’s primary goal is to enhance the understanding and diagnosis of disease through innovative tools. His research centers on developing and applying advanced tissue processing pipelines, 3D imaging technologies, and AI-assisted approaches for digital pathology. A major focus of his current work is the creation of comprehensive 3D kidney atlases in both human tissues and mouse models of disease.

Key Publications

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  1. Guo, Z., Poudel, C., Sarfatis, M. C., Yu, J., Wong, M., Chiu, D. T., & Vaughan, J. C. (2024). Highly multiplexed fluorescence microscopy with spectrally tunable semiconducting polymer dots. Science Advances, 10(50), eadk8829. PMCID: PMC11633751
  2. Bishop, K. W., Erion Barner, L. A., Han, Q., Baraznenok, E., Lan, L., Poudel, C., ... & Liu, J. T. (2024). An end-to-end workflow for nondestructive 3D pathology. Nature Protocols, 19(4), 1122-1148.
  3. Liu, J. T., Glaser, A. K., Poudel, C., & Vaughan, J. C. (2023). Nondestructive 3D pathology with light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for translational research and clinical assays. Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 16(1), 231-252. 

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