Research

The department is actively involved in research in the following areas:

• Understanding the mechanism of developmental origin of adult chronic diseases
• Telomere biology
• Regulation of endothelial progenitor cells
• Single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes involved in lipoprotein metabolism
• Non invasive/minimally invasive methods of collection for measurement of analytes

Projects

• Role of Telomere shortening and Telomerase activity on EPC senescence in premature CAD patients and controls
• Evaluation of HDL2, HDL3 and apolipoprotein A1 levels in a large Indian industrial population: Association with genetic variants in CETP, LCAT, hepatic lipase and LPL gene
• Relation of APOA-V gene variants to serial changes in childhood body mass index and coronary artery disease risk factors in young adulthood
• LDL particle heterogeneity and its association with other established risk factors for CHD in an Indian industrial population: Role of CETP gene
• Recovery and stability of routine chemistry analytes from filter paper
• Serum fatty acid levels and their correlation with other CVD risk factors in Industrial population from Delhi and Trivandrum