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- Dr Chinu Patra | MGL NIMHANS
kinjalchinu@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Dr Chinu Patra Clinical Post Doctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Senior Resident - Psychiatry)
- Karishma G R | MGL NIMHANS
karishmaravikumar02@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Lab Team Karishma G R Project Associate Karishma is a dual degree graduate in Molecular Medicine, holding an M. Tech from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, and an MS from the University of Arizona, US. Her previous research focused on understanding the interactions between cancer cells and neurons. Beyond science, she is trained in Bharathanatyam and loves dancing. Her favourite pastime activities include reading books, watching movies and expressing her thoughts through writing.
- Sunil Kumar Morigeri | MGL NIMHANS
sunilkumarmorigeri9594@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Sunil Kumar Morigeri Technical Assistant (Laboratory)
- Dr Jeevan YM | MGL NIMHANS
drjeevanym@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Dr Jeevan YM Clinical Post Doctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Senior Resident - Psychiatry)
- Nawaz Pasha | MGL NIMHANS
nawazpashakgn7@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Nawaz Pasha Research Nurse Nawaz Pasha is a Research Nurse with a Bachelor Degree in BSC Nursing. Nawaz has experience working in Hospital in ICU department. I like to travel new places and I enjoy photography of new places.
- Dr Bhagyalakshmi M S | MGL NIMHANS
bhagyams@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Lab Team Dr Bhagyalakshmi M S Project Scientist Dr Bhagyalakshmi is a project scientist at Centre for Brain and Mind with PhD in Genetics and Epigenetics of Psychiatric disorders. She is experienced at working with clinical samples, conducting association and candidate gene studies. She has also worked extensively on DNA methylation in psychiatric disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder, and Alcohol Liver Disease. Currently working on molecular genetics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of various neuropsychiatric disorders to understand the contribution of epigenetic modifications to the disease pathobiology and to explore gene -environment interaction in this aspect.
- Manjunath G | MGL NIMHANS
manjunathg7799@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Manjunath G Technical Assistant (Imaging and Database)
- Dr Sanjeev Jain | MGL NIMHANS
Google Scholar sjain.nimhans@gmail.com , docsanjeev.jain@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Team Lead Dr Sanjeev Jain Senior Professor, Department of Psychiatry Sanjeev Jain is a clinician and a teacher, and researches the genetic correlates of psychiatric and neurological disease. He studied medicine at the Delhi University (Maulana Azad Medical College); and did his post-graduate studies at the NIMHANS. He has been a Commonwealth Fellow at Cambridge (UK), and the co-Director of a NIH-Fogarty training and mentorship program. He has provided the lead for, and participated in, several population and cohort studies, and also provides genetic testing for several neuro-degenerative disorders, as well as counseling services for these families. This work includes the genetics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease, as well as addiction and OCD. Over the past few years, discussions and collaboration with other colleagues at NIMHANS, the NCBS and inSTEM, have extended the research from the clinic, to the bench, using both clinical assessments (including MRI, EEG etc.) as well as tools of cellular and molecular biology, including WES, iPSC and neuronal cell lines from individuals diagnosed to have psychiatric illnesses, and their affected and unaffected relatives. He has been a member of the committee for drafting the Mental Health Policy document for India; and is also an Adjunct Faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR), Bangalore. His other interests include the history of mental health services in India, from the colonial to the contemporary period. This work has helped understand the interface between science and medicine, and social responses to mental illness in India. The work has been supported by various funding agencies in India (DBT, ICMR, DST and the CSIR), as also the Wellcome Trust, NIH (Fogarty) and the MRC-ICMR.
- Dr Meera Purushottam | MGL NIMHANS
Research Gate meera.purushottam@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Team Lead Dr Meera Purushottam Senior Scientific Officer Dr Meera Purushottam is senior geneticist at the Molecular Genetics Laboratory at NIMHANS where the focus has been the genetic basis and correlates of psychiatric and neurological diseases. The laboratory is the testing ground for many clinicians who base their post graduate and doctoral thesis dissertations on wet lab experiments carried out under her supervision. Her work has focused on trying to understand the influence of gene variants on disease presentation and response to drugs. Cells derived from patients have been used to unravel disease mechanisms better, while whole exome studies have helped to identify rare risk variants in severe mental illness in patients. She is in charge of genetic testing for early onset neuromuscular and late onset movement disorders. She is interested in understanding the biological implications of genetic variants at the level of the patient, the tissue and the cell. The effect of the environment on the DNA methylome is an area of specific interest.
- Shweta S Agrahar | MGL NIMHANS
shwetasagrahar27@gmail.com < Back to People Page > Clinical Team Shweta S Agrahar Clinical Project Associate