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Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry

Description:

Located in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, JIPMER (previously Ecole Médecine in erstwhile French India) is an Institute of National Importance, running autonomously under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. JIPMER ranks among the top medical colleges in India, and is one of the largest super-specialty tertiary care hospitals in South India.

The Department of Psychiatry at JIPMER, has an out-patient and inpatient psychiatric acute care facility. The department has a patient base from Pondicherry and the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu.

Investigator	Profession	Contact Information	Publications
Dr. Vikas Menon	Additional Professor, Dept of Psychiatry JIPMER, Pondicherry	drvmenon@gmail.com	Google Scholar
Dr. Ravi Phillip Rajkumar	Additional Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, JIPMER, Pondicherry	ravi.psych@gmail.com	Google Scholar

Research

Previous/ Ongoing Research Collaborations

c-VEDA (Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders & Addictions)

An ICMR - MRC grant and its main papers
Comprises of >14.000 participants aged 0-25 years who have been genotyped
Participants include those with high risk for substance misuse and population-based individuals from different social and environmental (rural and urban) backgrounds.

Collaborating Sites:

NIMHANS Bangalore,
PGIMER, Chandigarh;
RIMH, Tezpur,
Mysore

ADBS (Accelerator Program for Discovery in Brain Disorders using Stem Cells

Funded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Study of multiplex families with severe mental illnesses
Whole exome sequencing for 300 multiplex-affected families and population controls

Publications

Wray et al. (2018) in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0090-3