Dwaipayan Bharadwaj's Biography

Dwaipayan Bharadwaj, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Prof. Dwaipayan Bharadwaj worked as a Ph.D student at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR), Kolkata and received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Calcutta University in 1993. After that he went to U.S.A for his post-doctoral training and worked at University of New Mexico as Research Associate. After coming back to India, he joined Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR) as a faculty in 2000 and initiated to form a metabolic disorder research group in the institute. Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Current focus of his lab is to understand the genomic, epigenetic & proteomic basis of metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity in Indian population. His extensive work on genetic dissection of T2D revealed novel susceptibility genes in Indians. He proposed the "Mosaic Model" as an alternate model to currently accepted model "Common variant common disease". Also, a novel in silico quantitative method has been developed in the laboratory for the disease gene prioritization based on protein-protein interactions and network analysis.
He established INdian DIabetes COnsortium (INDICO) constituted of clinicians and researchers from all over India to launch a foundation and generate resources for research community for comprehensive studies of metabolic disorders in India. Recently, his group completed and published first genome-wide association studies for T2D and related traits in Indian population that will facilitate newer insight into the pathophysiology of T2D.
He is elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.
He is currently one of the “Consulting Editors” of American Diabetes Association journal “Diabetes”. He is also editorial board member of “Nature Scientific Reports”.