Dr Hemant Bhargav, MD PhD, is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), an Institute of National Importance, Bengaluru, India. He is also a Visiting Faculty @ Massachusetts Mental Health Centre and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr Bhargav has recently received the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellowship Award for his proposed research in the areas of opioid addiction, neurimaging and yoga therapy. 

His research areas of interest are Yoga therapy, Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine and its applications in the field of mental health and neurosciences. He has more than 86 peer-reviewed research publications in these areas including two books.

He has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust/India Alliance CPH Early Career Fellowship in 2021. He has received multiple grants from the Govt of India. Currently, he has two ongoing funded projects as Principal Investigator at NIMHANS: 1) Yoga for Opioid Dependence: efficacy and potential mechanisms (Funded by DST-SATYAM) and 2) Yoga for Type 2 Diabetes: an RCT with 1 year follow up (Funded by DST-SERB). He is also the advisor to UGC under Research and Academics Task Force for Inter-university Centre for Yogic Sciences in India.

List of his scientific publications is given below: