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 CSIR-CFTRI Mysuru has no completed its phase II collection of Phenome India Health Cohort project.
A five-day long extensive health checkup camp was organized during here last week between August 6 to 10, 2025 its campus.
Now the CSIR Health Cohort project is a multi-institutional five-year long project covering across all CSIR laboratories. This project is being undertaken at national level to develop clinically useful personalized risk predictions for various communicable and non-communicable diseases. Over 10,000 employees of CSIR including retirees and their spouses have been identified as a subjects for this project.
The project started during 2022 and the first phase of the project was completed during February 2023 for CSIR-CFTRI. The participants those who have enrolled for this project have extensively undergone phlebotomy including CBC panel, liver function test & kidney function test. The blood sample collected is being analyzed for detailed biochemical markers as well as omics investigations including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, cytokines profile and telomere length measurement.
In addition, imaging and scanning was done through spirometry, ECG, body composition, liver scan, and oscillometry, etc. All the samples obtained from across the CSIR labs will be stored at CSIR Biobank at CSIR-IGIB, Delhi under strict anonymity protocol.
In this study, the large scale cohort being implemented along all 40 CSIR labs spread across the country will serve as a national resource for identifying genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle risk factors. The data obtained will be analyzed through AI and machine learning approaches for developing precision health care. The project is being co-ordinated by Dr. Shantanu Sengupta, chief scientist, CSIR-IGIB, Delhi.
Like previous year, this time too nearly 300 participants underwent the health check-up camp which was inaugurated by Dr. Bhaskar Narayan, director (additional charge), CSIR-CFTRI, in presence of Dr Prakash M Halami and Dr Muthukumar SP who are coordinating this project at institutional level.
Second phase of the testing camp had a specific health and nutritional questionnaire regarding food frequency conducted by Madras Diabetes Research Foundation. Due to consumption of highly process food there is a substantial increase in lifestyle disorders. Also, healthy ageing is one of the important agenda being noticed among senior citizens, hence, more number of retirees participated in this phase. In this context higher enrollment of subjects is being expected in phase III of the program, that will takes place during mid-2026, stated Dr Halami, principal investigator of the project.
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