[1] As of 2020, he is Mount Sinai Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research,[2] professor of neurology and psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,[3] director, Center for Cognitive Health and NFL Neurological Center Mount Sinai Hospital,[4] visiting principal research fellow, South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, SA, Australia, and chairman emeritus of the National Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer's Association.
He has received continuous National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for his research on amyloid metabolism since 1986.
Gandy also studies brain imaging as a tool to confirm chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in retired athletes and war Veterans during their lifetimes.
Gandy completed his post-doctorate at Rockefeller University, where he was appointed assistant professor in the laboratory of Paul Greengard, 2000 Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
[1][19] Gandy was appointed associate professor of neurology and neurosciences at Cornell University Medical College in 1992.