Tejas Telivala

While at the NSLS, Tejas Telivala was a Master’s student in the Medical Physics track of Biomedical Engineering at SUNY at Stony Brook. He obtained his Bachelors of Engineering (B.E) degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India in 2003. The degree focused a lot on design and QA of medical instruments. Having always been interested in the human body, he came to Stony Brook in 2004 in order to study further the biological (cells, tissue etc) aspect of Biomedical engineering. Tejas worked as a Research Assistant at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Lab under Dr Lisa Miller. He focused on using the synchrotron’s infrared and x-ray imaging techniques to understand the relation of metal ions (zinc, copper etc) in Alzheimer’s disease. He also conducted in-vitro experiments to understand the behavior of the Amyloid beta (1-42) peptide in the presence of metals which would help in understanding the Amyloid plaque cascade hypothesis as well as provide means to correlate the data obtained from the tissue. In his spare time Tejas enjoys Formula1, soccer, hiking and tennis.