Prof. Shinjini Bhatnagar is a physician scientist who worked with the Dept. of Pediatrics at AIIMS for 25 years as a pediatric gastroenterologist and as a research scientist. Her group?s hypothesis driven research led to the introduction of the modified low osmolarity ORS and zinc in treatment of childhood Diarrhea and diagnostic tests for Celiac disease. She is currently Professor of Eminence at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, an autonomous institute of the Dept. of Biotechnology GOI. She now leads large interdisciplinary research studies that bridge classical clinical research and modern biology to find solutions for diseases with public health importance. The two important programmes that she is coordinating are Garbh- ini (an interdisciplinary group for advanced research on birth outcome- DBT India initiative) and evaluation of Zinc as an adjunct to antimicrobial therapy for young infant sepsis. She is a fellow of three national academies i.e FAMS, NAMS and INSA.
Faridabad, Haryana, India
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute