Scientific advisory team
Clinicians and scientists who guide our medical content, clinics and care guidelines.
Dr I. C. Verma
Head, Department of Genetic Medicine
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New DelhiA pioneer of medical genetics in India and former Professor of Paediatrics and Genetics at AIIMS, New Delhi.
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Dr I. C. Verma heads the Department of Genetic Medicine at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He was earlier Professor of Paediatrics and Genetics at AIIMS, New Delhi, and trained in genetics in the UK, USA and Switzerland.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Academy of Medical Sciences, and has received the Ranbaxy Science Award, and ICMR, NAMS and B. C. Roy awards.
He has served as Vice-chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and as an adviser in genetics to the WHO. He counsels around 2,000 families with genetic conditions every year.
Dr Kausik Mandal
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
SGPGIMS, LucknowMedical geneticist (MD Paediatrics, DM Medical Genetics) specialising in genetic diagnosis and counselling.
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Dr Kausik Mandal holds an MD in Paediatrics and a DM in Medical Genetics, and is Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at SGPGIMS, Lucknow.
His clinical work covers dysmorphology diagnosis, genetic counselling and antenatal diagnosis (ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling), and he is skilled in MLPA and Sanger sequencing — the techniques used to confirm SMA.
He has around 50 publications in indexed journals and three book chapters, and reviews for six journals.
Dr Sanjukta De
Clinical Director, Department of Paediatrics & Neonatology
Peerless Hospital, KolkataPaediatrician (FRCPCH, MRCPCH) who runs SMA and DMD clinics in Kolkata and helped organise India's first national SMA conference.
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Dr Sanjukta De trained at Nilratan Sircar Medical College and holds DCH, DNB (Paediatrics), DCH (UK), MRCP (Child Health) and a Diploma in Allergy; she was awarded the FRCPCH by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) in 2017.
She runs SMA, DMD, paediatric allergy & asthma and enuresis clinics, and has spoken at and organised many workshops in allergy, immunology and pulmonology.
She helped organise the first National Conference on SMA in Kolkata.
Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick
Clinical Director – Academics, Quality & Clinical Research
Peerless Hospital & B. K. Roy Research Centre, KolkataClinical pharmacologist and patient-safety specialist; first Indian doctor awarded ISQua's Lucian Leape Patient Safety Fellowship.
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Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick is a medical graduate of Calcutta University (gold medal in Gynaecology & Obstetrics) with an MD in Pharmacology from IPGME&R, Kolkata, and over 13 years in clinical research, pharmacovigilance and medication management.
He worked at Stanford University School of Medicine as a Senior Clinical Research Associate (2015–2017), holds certifications from Stanford and Johns Hopkins, and is an NABH assessor for hospitals and ethics committees.
In 2019 he became the first Indian doctor to receive ISQua's Lucian Leape Patient Safety Fellowship, completing an assignment at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. He has published widely and serves on several journal editorial boards.
Dr Subir Roy
Therapy Area Lead – Genetic Disease
Takeda (India & Sri Lanka)Physician and medical-affairs leader with more than ten years in the pharmaceutical industry across seven countries.
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Dr Subir Roy is a medical doctor specialised in diabetology, with an MBA in Healthcare Marketing from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and a postgraduate diploma in clinical research.
He has more than ten years of pharmaceutical industry experience, including seven in medical affairs, at companies such as Bristol Myers Squibb and Novartis, and has worked in more than seven countries.
His expertise covers medical affairs, clinical research, pharmacovigilance, medical writing and cross-functional collaboration on complex projects.