"Vineet Bhandari, MD, DM, is a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine. He advises several postdoctoral fellows at Drexel. He previously served as an associate professor of pediatrics and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Yale University School of Medicine. Education: St. Columba's School, New Delhi (1981) Armed Forced Medical College, Pune (1985). Dr. Bhandari is associate editor of the Internet Journal of Medical Update, BMC Pediatrics and Frontiers in Pediatrics. He is on the editorial board of Pediatric Research and Journal of Perinatology. He has also served as guest editor, managing editor and contributing editor of several other publications. He is a manuscript reviewer for almost 100 research publications and has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books."

Dr. Bhandari has been awarded three patents, with a fourth pending. He is the principal investigator of two grant-supported projects: "Surfactant-Enhanced Delivery of Silencing Ribonucleic Acid to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia" and "Surfactant-enhanced delivery of silencing RNA (siRNA) in neonatal mouse models of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)." He is a co-PI for a Clinical and Translational Institute Research Grant investigating chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) proteins in pulmonary hypertension and their potential role as diagnostic biomarkers, and co-investigator for an NIH/NHLBI-supported study of quantitative optical imaging of cilia-driven fluid flow.