DrHabib Francis

Current projects include investigating:

1. Mechanisms of vascular injury, including neutrophil elastase–mediated vascular injury as a novel pathogenic mechanism in diabetes complications.
2. Circulating biomarkers, such as mitochondrial DNA copy number and fetuin A, as predictors of cardiovascular and microvascular risk.
3. Multi-omic datasets to identify molecular pathways driving diabetes complications.
4. Machine learning models that combine molecular, clinical, and socio-economic variables to improve risk stratification and prediction accuracy.