Chandravanshi Bhawna
School of Regenerative medicine, GKVK Post, Bellary Road, Yelahanka, Bangalore
Biography
Bhawna Chandravanshi during the tenure of her project mastered several basic as well as specialized cell culture techniques such as maintenance of normal and cancer cell lines, isolation of islets from murine pancreas, isolation and cultivation of stem cells from Human umbilical cord, amnion, placenta etc. She explored the possibility of in vitro generation of islets from the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from discarded tissues of human origin. She succeeded in obtaining large number of functional islets from these MSCs and could demonstrate restoration of normoglycemia upon transplantation of these islets in STZ diabetic mice. To her credit she has 5 first author publications, 5 second author publications with 2 book chapters. She has already visited Japan twice for oral and poster presentation and has bagged best oral presentation award.
Abstract
Abstract : Stem cell therapy facilitates tolerance in renal transplantation