Dr. Dharambir K. Sanghera is the Director of the
Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center (OUHSC). She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Sikh
Diabetes Study (SDS)/Asian Indian Diabetic Heart Study (AIDHS) and has over 25
years of experience in conducting large clinical genetic studies funded through
NIH and foundation grants. She is also the principal investigator of the
Metabolome in Ischemic Stroke Study (MISS). She obtained her Ph.D. at the Guru
Nanak Dev University in 1992. The long-term goals of Dr. Sanghera’s research
are (1) to identify the underlying molecular mechanisms associated with
cardiovascular disorders; (2) to improve the classification of the disease
process by identifying genome-wide patterns associated with ethnic variation
and disease subtypes and (3) to discover new therapeutic targets which can
inform the design of early prevention and treatment therapy among disparate
populations.
