Forensic Medicine

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Research Focus

  • Forensic Pathology
  • Forensic Toxicology
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Clinical Forensic medicine
  • Application of medical knowledge to legal proceedings

Funding agency

  • Indian Council of Medical Research

Ongoing projects

  • RTPCR quantification of telomere length as a molecular marker to estimate age – A medico-legal autopsy-based study
  • A study on the role of TPH1 and TPH2 gene polymorphisms in suicidal behaviour
  • Evaluation of Cardiac biomarkers in the pericardial fluid to detect death due to ischemic heart disease – An Autopsy-based study
  • Dating of wounds using Immunohistochemistry of matrix-metalloproteinase-2
  • Diagnostic significance of Thyroglobulin levels to solve the conundrum surrounding deaths due to neck compression – An autopsy-based study
  • Eliciting the association of Gene polymorphism and serum biomarkers as risk factors in suicidal behaviour of the South Indian population
  • Determination and estimation of age of injuries in fresh and decomposed bodies using Immunohistochemistry and Gene expression

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