Genomics and Molecular Medicine, Functional Genomics Unit, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), New Delhi, India Download abstract
Dr. Bhavana Prasher is a Senior Scientist, at CSIR’s Ayurgenomics Unit- TRISUTRA, CSIR- IGIB, New Delhi. She has done M.D in Ayurveda from Institute of Post Graduate Teaching & research in Ayurveda, Gujarat Ayurveda University in the year 1997. Dr. Bhavana has done clinical practice of Ayurveda at Vedanta Ayurveda, New Delhi till she joined Traditional Knowledge Digital Library programme at CSIR- NISCAIR in 2001. She is working in the area of Ayurgenomics since 2002 and has been instrumental in establishment of this new field of integrative research CSIR.
Dr. Bhavana’s main research interest is to integrate methods and practices of Ancient Indian predictive and personalized medicine, Ayurveda with modern genomics and to decipher the modern biological basis underlying the principles of Ayurveda.
At CSIR- TRISUTRA (Translational Research and Innovative Science ThRough Ayurgenomics), her group is trying to explore molecular basis of observed inter- individual variability within and across populations of India. This involves clinical phenotyping using Prakriti methods of Ayurveda as well as modern objective parameters such as Autonomic function tests, anthropometric parametrs etc and linking them to genomic variability at different OMIC levels through integrated analysis. Dr. Bhavana also teaches Ayurgenomics course to Ph.D students, in Academy for Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) as Assistant Professor in the faculty of Biological sciences.
Their group has published original researches and review articles in the area of Ayurgenomics in international journals of repute.