Faculty

Role:  Research Dietician

• “Nutrition in health the Disease in the Elderly” Sponsored by Roussel Scientific Institute India, Bombay, 1989-1991.
• “Assessment of Nutritional Status of the Elderly in the India rural community” sponsored by Sandoz Foundation for Gerontology Research, Australia, 1991-1993.
• Relationship between lipid profile, nutrition and ischaemic heart disease in the rural elderly”, sponsored by Roussel Scientific Institute India, Bombay, 1992-1994.
• “Health and nutrition status in the elderly living in Institution and families”, sponsored by Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 1996-1998.
• “Assessment of Nutrition, Health and Social Problems among the Institutionalized Elderly”, sponsored by University Grants Commission, New Delhi, 1996-1998.

Role: PI

• RSSDI-funded project: Exploring the prevalence & association of vitamin B 12 and vitamin D deficiency in individuals with different degrees of glucose intolerance among urban south Indians” (2014-2017)
• RSSDI-funded project: The association between Type 2 diabetes and oral cancer in South India” (2021-2022)

Role: Co-PI         

• WHO/Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India. Development of sentinel health monitoring centers in India (2002-2012)
• Johnson & Johnson, LifeScan Inc., funded project. Obesity Reduction through    Awareness of NCDs and Group Education – The ORANGE School Children Project (2007-2009)
• ICMR- India Diabetes [INDIAB] Task force Study [Phase I], funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (2008-2011)
• Center Of Excellence -Center for Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia - Surveillance Study, funded by OVATIONS & NHLBI (2009-2014)
• ICMR- India Diabetes [INDIAB] Task force Study[ North East Component], funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (2010-2015)
• Novel Non-invasive Low-Cost Technologies for Diabetes Screening and Treatment [Indo-US Joint project in the area of low cost diagnostics and medical devices], funded by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India (2011-2014)
• Strengthening Indian NCD clinical research and training capacity , funded by Fogarty International Grant, NIH, USA (2006-2015)
• ICMR-India Diabetes [INDIAB] Task Force Study [Excluding North East] Phase II, funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (2012-2021)
• NIHR Global Heath Research Unit on Global Diabetes Outcomes Research- (INSPIRED) funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), UK (2017-2021)
• Establishing a Biorepository facility at Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (2019-2021)
• A novel high intensity short interval dance intervention for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention in Asian Indian adolescent girls – THANDAV, funded by JGHT - UKRI MRC (June 2022-December 2023)
• Follow-up of ICMR-INDIAB Phase I & Northeast (Arunachal Pradesh & Tamil Nadu)- Changes in prevalence of diabetes/prediabetes incidence risk and rates of complications/ mortality funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (2022-2024)
• ICMR–India Diabetes [INDIAB] Study – Union Territories (Excluding Chandigarh & Puducherry) funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (2023-2024)

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