§ Life beyond the bench
Outside the Lab
Surgery and research both demand patience - you learn to enjoy the long process, not just the outcome.
When we’re not in the operating theatre or the lab, you’ll find our team volunteering at rural pediatric surgery clinics, practicing yoga, or catching up over chai between cases. 🧘☕🏥
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Rural Outreach
Weekly pediatric surgery clinics at the Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project, Ballabhgarh, bringing surgical care to underserved communities (2015–2022).
§ Latest updates
The PG Lab is hosting a two-day CME-cum-hands-on Whole Exome Sequencing Workshop on clinical applications in paediatric surgery, covering the exome workflow from raw reads and variant calling to annotation and clinical interpretation.
Workshop details →The PG Lab was awarded an ICMR grant for a multi-centric network on biobanking and geographic-stratified molecular profiling in pediatric solid tumors, with funding of approximately ₹7.9 crores - one of the largest extramural awards in the department's recent history.
A newly funded CSIR study is developing a point-of-care test for hypospadias risk assessment through gene expression profiling, whole exome sequencing, and hormonal assessment in patient-family trios from the North Indian population, funded at approximately ₹2.75 crores.
Prabudh completed his PhD in Pediatric Surgery at AIIMS New Delhi in 2025, with a thesis on the genomics of hypospadias - the culmination of a five-year research program combining exome sequencing, copy-number variant analysis, and epigenetic profiling.