Ritushree Kukreti's Biography

Ritushree Kukreti, Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology

Dr. Ritushree Kukreti is Ph.D. (1994) from Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Roorkee University (the present IIT Roorkee). Later she joined University of Paris, France for the postdoctoral work and in 1998, she joined the Functional Genomics Unit at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India. Subsequently, in Oct. 2002 she joined Nicolas Piramal India Ltd. as a Senior Scientist. Currently, she is scientist at CSIR-IGIB and working towards understanding the genetic and molecular basis of disease severity, variable drug response for complex diseases and related studies to create a powerful platform for pharmacogenomics driven drug discovery and clinical medicine. She is working in the area of pharmacogenomics and achieved success in establishing this research area in the institute generated high impact knowledge. Her aim is to identify genes and interacting genetic factors that contribute to drug responses. This involves study of metabolic pathways, transcriptional and post transcriptional regulation of genes and gene-gene interactions by using multiple linear regression analyses for the establishment of significant associations between genetic variants and phenotypes of biomedical importance.