Narinder Kumar Mehra
Medical Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Narinder Kumar Mehra obtained his BSc degree in Human Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry from Govt Medical College, Amritsar and later did his MSc (Human Anatomy) and PhD (Immunology of Leprosy) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. During 1975-77, he visited various centres in Europe and studied histocompatibility and immunogenetics (chiefly under Professor John Van Rood, Holland), a new emerging biomedical speciality at that time. Subsequently, he worked with Professor John Hansen at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, on immunogenetic aspects of rheumatoid arthritis using DNA based technologies of HLA analysis.
Research Interest
Clinical Immunogenetics and Transplantation Immunology
