NBC Research

Over the past few decades, despite a variety of therapeutic strategies proposed to accelerate the healing of acute or chronic wounds, effective treatment for chronic non-healing wounds still remains a challenge. At National Burns Center, the focus of the research is to find the ways for the treatment of burn patients through culture system and exploring the molecular mechanism where we can unfold the involved pathway that are altered in burn patients. To take the advantage of in-vitro culture system, for possible transplantation and treatment of non-pigmented or hypo-pigmented patches on skin, we developed melanocyte-keratinocyte co-culture system, which brings a gratuitous hope. To use the tremendous capacity of adult stem cells, we are trying to isolate stem cells from skin tissue/hair follicles etc. keeping a hope that stem cell would be a potential therapeutic interventions. In another study, we looked into the molecular machinery that gets altered in abnormal scar or hypertrophic scar in post thermal injury. We sincerely put our effort to understand and tackle the problem of burns in which we can bring the research findings from bench to clinic.

Our Research Team :

Sitting from left to right: Dr. Shruti Dutta, Dr. S.M.Keswani (Medical Director),Dr. Mamata Mishra

Standing from left to right: Ms. Tanvi Virkar, Ms. Reshmi Varghese, Ms. Vaishna Upendran, Mrs.Sangita Panda

Aim of Research:“to find advanced ways for treatment of burn patients through cell culture, scaffold preparation and by exploring the molecular mechanism to unfold the involved pathways that are altered in burn patients so that the research findings can be translated from bench to bed.”