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The Principal Investigator Dr. Ena Ray Banerjee, an Immunologist and Regenerative Biologist, has a large body of work on inflammatory diseases of the peritoneum, lung, and intestine as well as cutting edge research accomplishment in stem cell and regenerative medicine. Till date, there has been no systematic study of correlating functional studies of local plant biodiversity in their capacity for enrichment of food varieties available to the urban population who are the majority of victims to the above occupational and lifestyle diseases that irk today’s modern stress ridden society. The healthcare costs on the nation and loss of productive manpower hours, particularly in the high end technological sectors and specifically in the armed forces, have seen a recent rise as a result of affliction with these diseases at the heart of which is inflammation of an acute and chronic form invariably regressing into degeneration of functional tissues.

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Ray Banerjee, E. (2016). Subchapter-B. In: Perspectives in Translational Research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0989-1_14

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