Oral Cancer is one of the top most killer among the cancer related death in the Indian subcontinent. The main reason for the oral cancer epidemic largely due to life style and habits which includes non-smoking tobacco habit , Smoking and chewing tobacco together and also habit of raw areca nut.
The late diagnosis and Disease recognition added to this cause. The VNOCI has been formed with the generous support of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India by research group from different Institution comprising of several cancer Biologist, Chemical Biologist, Genomics experts and also substantial number of clinicians from different hospitals
The VNOCI aims to understand disease Biology of Oral cancer in India with special emphasis on epigenetic alteration, Generate patient sample based reagents and to develop modalities for Oral Cancer Prevention, Diagnostic and new generation therapeutics
