Hyderabad: Dr Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences is setting up a Centre for Disease Biology to focus on diabetes research.
According to a company release, the centre would aim at promoting epidemiological research to understand the genetic, lifestyle and nutritional pre-dispositions of Indian population, disease patho-biology of diabetes and translational research involving hospitals, clinicians, scientists and industry to evolve therapies and solutions to address diabetes.
According to the Diabetes Atlas published by the International Diabetes Federation, it is estimated that every fifth person with diabetes will be an Indian resulting in huge health and economic burden. To address this problem, the centre would work by integrating the efforts of clinicians, scientists, epidemiologists and pharma industries.
The centre would be formally inaugurated on September 21. A symposium titled ‘Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes: An Indian Epidemic’ will also be organised on the same day in the memory of Late K. Anji Reddy, founder of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
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