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## Meet the editor

Madhu Khullar, Ph.D., was a Professor in the Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India from 2005 to 2018. She is currently an Emeritus Scientist, at the Indian Council of Medical Education and Research, India. She completed a fellowship in Hypertension Research from Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA, and was a recipient

of the Fogarty Fellowship, NIH, USA. From 1991 to 1993 she published nearly 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has a keen research interest in Molecular mechanisms, Genetics and Functional Genomics of Cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension.

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