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Dipayan Chaudhuri

Dipayan Chaudhuri, MD, PhD

Languages spoken: English, Spanish
  • Dr. Dipayan Chaudhuri earned his medical and graduate degrees at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and subsequently a clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Concurrently with his clinical fellowship, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chaudhuri joined the faculty of the Cardiovascular Division at the University of Utah in January 2016 as an Assistant Professor. He is also an investigator at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI) on the Health Sciences Campus. His research focuses on changes in metabolism during heart failure. Dr. Chaudhuri is an attending physician on the Cardiovascular Medical Unit and on the Cardiology Consult Service at the University of Utah Hospital, with a clinical specialty in General Cardiology.

    Board Certification

    National Board of Echocardiography
  • Dr. Dipayan Chaudhuri earned his medical and graduate degrees at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and subsequently a clinical fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Concurrently with his clinical fellowship, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chaudhuri joined the faculty of the Cardiovascular Division at the University of Utah in January 2016 as an Assistant Professor. He is also an investigator at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI) on the Health Sciences Campus. His research focuses on changes in metabolism during heart failure. Dr. Chaudhuri is an attending physician on the Cardiovascular Medical Unit and on the Cardiology Consult Service at the University of Utah Hospital, with a clinical specialty in General Cardiology.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Primary
    Biochemistry -Adjunct
    Academic Divisions Cardiovascular Medicine
    Board Certification
    National Board of Echocardiography

    Education history

    Research Fellow Cardiology - Boston Children’s Hospital Research Fellow
    Cardiovascular Research Center - Massachusetts General Hospital Research Fellow
    Fellowship Cardiovascular Diseases - Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Fellow
    Internal Medicine, ABIM Research Pathway - University of California, San Francisco Resident
    Internship Internal Medicine - University of California, San Francisco Intern
    Medicine, Neuroscience - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine M.D., Ph.D.
    Undergraduate Biology, Philosophy - Cornell University B.A.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Lee SH, Duron HE, Chaudhuri D (2023). Beyond the TCA cycle: new insights into mitochondrial calcium regulation of oxidative phosphorylation. Biochem Soc Trans, 51(4), 1661-1673. (Read full article)
    2. Szulik MW, Valdez S, Walsh M, Davis K, Bia R, Horiuchi E, OVery S, Laxman AK, Sandaklie-Nicolova L, Eberhardt DR, Durrant JR, Sheikh H, Hickenlooper S, Creed M, Brady C, Miller M, Wang L, Garcia-Llana J, Tracy C, Drakos SG, Funai K, Chaudhuri D, Boudina S, Franklin S (2023). SMYD1a protects the heart from ischemic injury by regulating OPA1-mediated cristae remodeling and supercomplex formation. Basic Res Cardiol, 118(1), 20. (Read full article)
    3. Johnson JM, Peterlin AD, Balderas E, Sustarsic EG, Maschek JA, Lang MJ, Jara-Ramos A, Panic V, Morgan JT, Villanueva CJ, Sanchez A, Rutter J, Lodhi IJ, Cox JE, Fisher-Wellman KH, Chaudhuri D, Gerhart-Hines Z, Funai K (2023). Mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine modulates UCP1 to promote brown adipose thermogenesis. Sci Adv, 9(8), eade7864. (Read full article)
    4. Balderas E, Eberhardt DR, Lee S, Pleinis JM, Sommakia S, Balynas AM, Yin X, Parker MC, Maguire CT, Cho S, Szulik MW, Bakhtina A, Bia RD, Friederich MW, Locke TM, Van Hove JLK, Drakos SG, Sancak Y, Tristani-Firouzi M, Franklin S, Rodan AR, Chaudhuri D (2022). Mitochondrial calcium uniporter stabilization preserves energetic homeostasis during Complex I impairment. Nat Commun, 13(1), 2769. (Read full article)

    Editorial

    1. Balderas E, Chaudhuri D (2023). Absence (of the uniporter) makes the heart grow fonder: The cardiac response to injury adapts after prolonged EMRE inhibition. J Mol Cell Cardiol, 181, 31-32. (Read full article)
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