Textbook of Medical Biochemistry by Rajinder Chawla

About the Book

The second edition of the book has been carefully pruned to suit the needs of undergraduate medical students in an aim to make them understand the biochemical concepts rather than memorizing them. The illustrations have been made instructive and visually appealing. Chapter summary and the review questions at the end of each chapter provide an opportunity for the students to revise and evaluate their understanding of the topics discussed. Applied, important and interesting concepts have been put into boxes to make them attractive for the students. Supplementation of the reading material with the clinical case studies is an effort to make the subject relevant to medicine and to introduce the students to the clinics.

About the Author

Dr Rajinder Chawla, MSc, DMRIT, PhD, is Ex‐Professor of Biochemistry, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has taught medical biochemistry to medical, dental, and nursing students for more than 26 years. During his tenure in academics, he has published about 30 research papers and coauthored three medical biochemistry books and has been a principal investigator for national research projects funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Dr Chawla is Founder, Director of AccuScript Consultancy, Reading, United Kingdom, a multinational medical writing agency providing research and analysis for development of new drugs. Dr Tarek H. El‐Metwally, PhD (Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA), is Professor and Consultant Clinical Biochemist at the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. Currently, he is posted as Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at College of Medicine, Aljouf University, Saudi Arabia. He has also been a Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; a visiting professor at Libyan Universities; and a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. He is also the founding Associate Editor‐in‐Chief of Aljouf University Medical Journal (AUMJ). Dr Tarek has to his credit publication of 50 research papers and has coauthored 8 books. Dr Suchanda Sahu, MD (Biochemistry), is presently working as Associate Professor in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. She has served at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana; Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIIMS); and Sree Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Ernakulam. She has 17 years of vast experience in teaching both postgraduate and undergraduate students of medical, dental, nursing, and life science students. She is a very keen and popular teacher and is a resource person for medical education program of MCI. Her research interests include obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, lipid metabolism, and lab diagnostics.