B K Thelma
- January 9, 2024
- Academic
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B K Thelma Biography
| Name | B K Thelma |
| Birthday | Mar 13 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Birth Country | India |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
B K Thelma is one of the most popular and richest Academic who was born on March 13, 1955 in India.
Her recent academic accomplishments include i) identification of novel risk genes/loci for two inflammatory conditions namely Rheumatoid arthritis & Ulcerative colitis by the first ever GWAS conducted in the genetically distinct north Indian population; ii) discovery of new causal genes namely MID2 for X-linked Intellectual Disability; PODXL and RIC3 genes for familial Parkinson’s disease by exome sequencing approach; and iii) demonstration of differences/similarities between the two major Indian subpopulations namely south and north Indians using both SNP array based and exome sequencing approaches. She has several national and international collaborative projects and has over 90 peer reviewed publications to her credit. She is a fellow of all the three science academies in India, has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India; National Science and Engineering Research Board and Human Genetics/Medical genomics task force of funding agencies including the Department of Biotechnology and Indian council of Medical research, Government of India. Delhi. She has taught subjects like Human Genetics, Human and Medical Biotechnology, Cytogenetics, Recombinant DNA technology, Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic gene expression, Molecular systematics and evolution, and Cell biology. Her recent publication, Attempts to replicate genetic associations with schizophrenia in a cohort from north India was published in Nature. As of Dec 2019, she has 5135 citation on google scholar, with an h-index of 34 and i10 index of 77.
B K Thelma Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Academic |
| House | Living in own house. |
B K Thelma is one of the richest Academic from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, B K Thelma 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Thelma completed her BSc and MSc in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973 and 1975 respectively. She pursued PhD in Bio-medical research in 1982 from the University of Delhi. Thelma had a short stint as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human Genetics Laboratory at Children’s Hospital, Switzerland with Professor Hans Jakob Muller. She was CSIR Pool Officer and Research Associate in the Zoology Department, University of Delhi. In 1987, she started as a lecturer at Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus. She has also been a Visiting Scientist at prestigious institutions abroad and undertook several international research collaborations. Thelma established the DNA-based diagnosis facilities for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation, with financial support from Department of Biotechnology. Her Lab is one of the few which offers this national level diagnostic service. She also served on various expert committees of ICMR, DBT, and CSIR. and as Member of the XV International Genetics Congress Trust. Thelma has worked on 197 publications as of Dec 2019 according to her google scholar page
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