Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Rekha Samuel is a Pathologist working at the Centre for Stem Cell Research (CSCR), Christian Medical College, India. She did her Post-doctoral Training in Dr. Rakesh K Jain’s Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, on an overseas fellowship that was funded by the Department of Biotechnology,Government of India. She is the Principal Investigator of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the CSCR. Her current research focuses on examining the Microvascular Defects of Type 2 Diabetes using the Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Placenta. She has recently been awarded the European Foundation of Study for Diabetes/Sanofi 2015 grant.