Narinder Kumar Mehra

Biography

Born on 4 November 1949 in Amritsar, in the Indian state of Punjab, Mehra did his schooling at Bishop Cotton School, Simla[3] and earned his graduate degree (BSc) with human anatomy, physiology and biochemistry as optional subjects from Government Medical College, Amritsar in 1969 before moving to Delhi to complete his master's degree (MSc) in human anatomy at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.[4] He continued at AIIMS for his doctoral studies and after securing a PhD in 1975[5] on the immunology of leprosy, he did post-doctoral work on histocompatibility and immunogenetics at the laboratory of Jon van Rood in the Netherlands and later with John A. Hansen at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle. On his return to India, he joined his alma mater, AIIMS, as a pool officer in 1977, where he served out his career, serving as a professor from 1993 onward.[6] In 1979, he was elevated to lecturer with the additional responsibility of the clinical and research activities of the Histocompatibility Laboratory established under the Department of Anatomy in 1977, the year he joined AIIMS.[7] In 1993, the laboratory, which served as the core laboratory in India for workshops on histocompatibility as well as a base for researches on human leukocyte antigen (HLA), was upgraded to a full-fledged department under the name, the Department of Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics, and he headed the department as its founding chair. He also served as the member secretary of the Research Advisory Council[8] and chaired the Dean’s Research Committee (DRC) at AIIMS.[9] At the time of superannuation in 2004, he was serving as the Dean of Research and post-retirement, he holds the Dr. C.G. Pandit National Chair of the Indian Council of Medical Research at AIIMS,[10] continuing his research at the institution

Research Interest

rheumatoid arthritis