Academic Credentials:
Awarded merit prizes in MBBS including the President's Medal and Gold Medal in Medicine. She did
training fellowship by British Council in the field of Inborn Errors of Metabolism Senior Women Bioscientist
in India for the year 2005 for life time achievement by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of
India.
Career Achievements:
40 years of practice in clinical Pediatrics and research in the area of Medical Genetics.
Set up the Nation's comprehensive Genetic Diagnostic Service Laboratory for the diagnosis of Biochemical, molecular and cytogenetic disorders at Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), a unit of Department of Biotechnology Government of India. This led to the setting up of prenatal diagnosis for the high risk families with the objective of genetic counseling and prevention of genetic disorders.
Instrumental in setting up the first Newborn Screening for preventable causes of Mental retardation in India and published the first data on the prevalence of these disorders in the Indian population. This led to the starting of pilot screening by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the most common disorders in five centers in the country now. |
