Proteomic Analysis of Neurological Disorders  
     
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Identification of potential biomarkers for Guillain Barre Syndrome (In collaboration with Dr. Anita Mahadevan, Department of Neuropathology, NIMHANS).

 
2.
Identification of differentially expressed proteins from the serum of medial temporal lobe epileptic patients  (In collaboration with Dr. Parthasarathy Satishchandra, Director and VC, Department of Neurology, NIMHANS).

 
3.
Identification of candidate biomarkers for early detection of ischemic stroke (In collaboration with Dr. Rita Christopher, Department of Neurochemistry and Dr. D. Nagaraja, Department of Neurology, NIMHANS).

 
4.
Isolation and characterization of toxic factors present in the cerebrospinal fluid of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients (In collaboration with Dr. T. R. Raju, Department of Neurophysiology and Dr. S. Bharath, Department of Neurochemistry, NIMHANS).

 
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Identification of differentially expressed proteins in duchenne muscular dystrophy (In collaboration with Dr. S. Bharath, Department of Neurochemistry, NIMHANS).

 
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  Proteomic Analysis of Infectious Diseases
 
     
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Characterization of the host response to Cryptococcus neoformans through quantitative proteomic analysis of cryptococcal meningitis brain tissues (In collaboration with Dr. S. K. Shankar, Emeritus Professor, Department of Neuropathology  and Principal Coordinator, Human Brain Bank, NIMHANS). 

 
2.
Quantitative proteomic profiling of toxoplasma encephalitis brain tissues  (In collaboration with Dr. S. K. Shankar). 

 
3.
Identification of altered host proteins in tuberculous meningitis brain tissues with HIV infection by mass spectrometry. (In collaboration with Dr. S. K. Shankar).

 
4.
Identification of secreted protein biomarkers for tuberculous meningitis by differential proteomic analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (In collaboration with Dr. R. Ravikumar, Professor and Head, Department of Neuromicrobiology, NIMHANS). 

 
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Examination of cerebrospinal fluid proteins in cryptococcal meningitis patients to study the host response to cryptococcal infection (In collaboration with Dr. R. Ravikumar). 

 
6.
Identification of cryptococcal antigens in cerebrospinal fluid from cryptococcal meningitis patients by high resolution mass spectrometry (In collaboration with Dr. R. Ravikumar). 

 
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Identification of novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in cerebrospinal fluid from TBM patients (In collaboration with Dr. R. Ravikumar). 

 
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  Genomic Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders  
     
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Identification of genes associated with X-linked mental retardation using array based comparative genomic hybridization (In collaboration with Dr. Satish Chandra Girimaji, Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS).

 
2.
Targeted resequencing of XLMR patients to identify the gene associated with XLMR (In collaboration with Dr. Satish Chandra Girimaji).

 
3.
Identification of proteins associated with schizophrenia by gene expression profiling and deep proteomic analysis in brain tissue (In collaboration with Dr. Venkatasubramanian Ganesan, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS).

 
     
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