PGI ORTHOPOD WINS PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 24^th November:- Prof Mandeep Dhillon of the Orthopaedics Deptt of PGI, was awarded the prestigious RC Ralhan Gold Medal for best original research work in Orthopaedics at the recently concluded National conference of the Indian orthopaedic association. This work, on Genetic predisposition for developing ACL knee injuries, was part of a larger project currently underway at PGI which is looking at genetic variations and chances of predisposition to knee injuries. Started as a thesis project with Dr Rakesh John, this has now evolved into a larger project with Dr Sharad Prabhakar of Orthopaedics and Dr Akshay Anand of Neurosciences department expanding the research into other areas. Some genetic polymorphisms which were proven to be correlated with chances of getting knee ligament injuries were shown to be absent in Indians, thus showing a significant ethnic variation, and leading to future avenues of research.