Aran
Sandhu
I am interested in bridging the domains of pharmacology and engineering to define the future of frontline casualty care and give warfighters an edge on the battlefield that will ultimately bring them home to their families.
What follows is a menagerie of projects that I have completed, each guiding me to my deeper purpose.
Projects
9 in total
01A Touch of MaliceCritical-care medications at the point of injury, delivered on schedule for as long as evacuation takes, without a medic standing over a syringe.Design withheld, patent pending02Battlefield Business CardA combat medic in Ukraine asked for a little clamp so a syringe left on the line can’t be pushed by accident. Seven printed parts, no hardware, no tools, and free to any medic who wants one.
03Using worms to cure agingAn AI screening pipeline for longevity compounds, and the first project I owned end to end, from conception to a 10-page protocol someone else could run.
04Vertex Pharmaceuticals6 months of chemical biology under two senior scientists, where I built the notebook habit that every project since has run on.
05Gaucho RacingEvery previous UCSB racing team had collapsed within a year. I raised ~$30k with nothing to show, cut a chassis by hand, and built a road-legal trailer in three weeks to get it to Michigan.
06OptoplatesI had never seen a soldering iron in real life. 9 functional optogenetic control boards later, I had earned my stripes in the lab.
07OsakaMy very first poster, on FRAP of the replicative senescence marker AP2A1 in epithelial cells.
08M3LThe car I promised my dad I’d buy myself at thirteen and bought in cash at seventeen, and the Lake Berryessa touge we treat like a racetrack.
09My RoomA flatscreen turned into a found-footage mirror, an exhaust muffler turned into a coffee table, and a chair made from a bucket seat and two coilovers.
03Using worms to cure agingAn AI screening pipeline for longevity compounds, and the first project I owned end to end, from conception to a 10-page protocol someone else could run.04Vertex Pharmaceuticals6 months of chemical biology under two senior scientists, where I built the notebook habit that every project since has run on.05Gaucho RacingEvery previous UCSB racing team had collapsed within a year. I raised ~$30k with nothing to show, cut a chassis by hand, and built a road-legal trailer in three weeks to get it to Michigan.06OptoplatesI had never seen a soldering iron in real life. 9 functional optogenetic control boards later, I had earned my stripes in the lab.07OsakaMy very first poster, on FRAP of the replicative senescence marker AP2A1 in epithelial cells.08M3LThe car I promised my dad I’d buy myself at thirteen and bought in cash at seventeen, and the Lake Berryessa touge we treat like a racetrack.09My RoomA flatscreen turned into a found-footage mirror, an exhaust muffler turned into a coffee table, and a chair made from a bucket seat and two coilovers.More
If you want to know more about me, ask me these questions.
01Why are you on this journey?
02What’s the biggest challenge you wanted to overcome as a kid?
03What was it like being bullied as a kid, and why did you totally forget that this ever used to happen?
04Why was leaving Sacramento to pursue your dreams such a taboo?
05How did you develop a fear of people?
06How did you conquer your fear of people?
07How did you remove self-doubt and become your genuine self?