Dr. Srikanta Kumar Rath, Scientist, Genotoxicity Laboratory, Central Drug Research Institute. Dr Rath has contributed significantly to the field of molecular toxicology and understanding of disease genomics by developing  assays for genotoxicity using oligonucleotides and real-time approaches. He has built a tremendous understanding of SNPs in different DNA repair genes in several subpopulations of India and  an understanding of gene expression profile of Anti malarials. Dr Rath was one of the key implementors in the creation of Indian Genome Variation Consortium database (IGVdb). Dr Rath’s vision is to develop models to understand toxicity and disease effects. Dr Rath is making efforts to study toxicity and human disease parallely and to make the convergence at some point which will be useful in future for diagnosis.

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