Atul Malhotra is the director of research for pulmonary, critical care, sleep medicine, and physiology at the University of California, San Diego's Medical School.

[1] In addition, he is the Peter C. Farrell Presidential Chair and tenured professor of medicine at the same university.

[5][6] Malhotra does research in the domains of pulmonary medicine, intensive care unit (ICU), obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and other respiratory biology disciplines.

[10][11][12] Finding new therapeutic targets for sleep apnea is the main goal of his lab to meet a critical public health need.

Atul Malhotra, who has more than 25 years of professional experience, is currently the director of research for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the University of California, San Diego.