Hyderabad: In the rapidly evolving field of healthcare protocols and advancements in treatments of various diseases and health conditions, two city doctors have been digging deep, down to the genetic information level, in a bid to ensure best possible outcomes for their patients.
“This is the next step in medical care,” says Dr Kalyan Uppuluri, from K&H Personalized Medicine Clinic. He, along with Dr Hima Challa, are the founders of the clinic, the first of its kind in the country to offer services bringing genomic medicine into clinical medicare. Armed with degrees in medical genomics from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School respectively, they say they took a leap of faith two years ago to set up their clinic in the city.
“There is enough data at the genetic level of humans to help modern medicine become more precise,” says Dr Hima Challa. “There is very strong objective evidence for this.”
The challenge for them was to translate molecular…