Journal of Mucosal Immunology Research
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Biography

Dr.M.Balasubramanyam is Dean of Research Studies & Senior Scientist at the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF). He is a member of the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (A-IMBN) and had an extensive post-doctoral training (1991-95) at the Hypertension Research Centre, New Jersey Medical School, USA, in the areas of signal transduction in health and metabolic diseases with special reference to molecular pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes and vascular biology. Having worked as a faculty at the Center for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai for 3 years (1996-99) he has joined MDRF in 1999. He is instrumental in setting up the basic infrastructural facilities at MDRF and coordinates various research programmes and educational activities from time-to-time.

Research Interest

Disease Biology, Vascular Biology, Diabetic retinopathy, Gut microbiome, Metabolic diseases