Muralidharan Sargurupremraj

Dr. Sargurupremraj completed a Bachelor degree on a broad biotechnology background in India, and a Master on a much narrowed down and an interesting topic “Genetics” from the University of Leicester. He is especially interested in the genetics of complex diseases and the effect of environmental interactions. His Ph.D. focused on “How intermediate quantitative traits – like cytokines can function as biomarkers in the diagnosis of early onset Asthma”.

At present he is working on the applications of genome-wide analysis tools in associating the genetic background with phenotypes of cerebral small vessel disease and endophenotypes such as memory function. His future interests will be on extending the findings from genome-wide tools by studying the effect of epigenetics modifications like methylation and so on.