Naureen Fatima
Aligarh Muslim University,India
Biography
I joined Ph.D. at the Department of Biochemistry, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh under the supervision of Dr. Shagufta Moin, Department of Biochemistry, and co-supervision of Prof. M. Owais, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, A.M.U. The topic of my Ph.D. thesis is “Functional and Clinical Relevance of T-helper 17 cells in Diabetes Mellitus”. Th17 cells, which are a newly identified subset of T helper cells, have been found to be important in the pathogenesis of other autoimmune diseases. Its function is relatively unclear in type 1 diabetes.