Sandhya is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at IISc where she studies the mechanism of signal transduction via cyclic nucleotides

in bacteria and the mammalian gut. She is also the co-chair of

Biosystems Science and Engineering Department, a Margadarshi Fellow of

the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, and has won numerous awards

including the J.C Bose fellowship and the TWAS fellowship.