Women in Science: Sucharita Sambashivaiah on her prevention plan for Type 2 diabetes
Sucharita Sambashivaiah and her team of researchers are looking into an unconventional aspect of Type 2 Diabetes, and studying how the disease can be better managed in Indians
Editor's note: Starting National Science Day 2018, The Life of Science and Firstpost bring you a series profiling Indian women in Science. The challenges in Indian scientific life are many — more so for women taking up this path. This series honours those who beat the odds and serve as inspirations for the next generation of Indian science — a generation that is slowly and surely on its way to becoming gender equal.
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Art, concept by Pooja Prabhakaran | Text by Bidisha Ghosh
Sucharita Sambashivaiah | Researcher in Clinical Physiology | St John's Medical College
In a research unit in Bengaluru, Sucharita Sambashivaiah and her team of researchers are looking into an unconventional aspect of Type 2 Diabetes, and studying how the disease can be better managed in Indians.
Read more from the 'Women in Science' series here.
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