Melioidosis, Tropical Infections, Sepsis,  AMR, AMSP, One Health

Professor of Microbiology;

Director, Manipal Institute of Virology

Awards and recognition:

• Received Best Research Publication award on ‘Melioidosis’ by VGST (2009 – 10), DST, Govt. of Karnataka, India

• Received Hari Om Ashram Alembic Research Award for ‘Basic Research in Medical Science’ in Melioidosis by Medical Council of India, India in 2018

• Speaker for European Melioidosis Congress in Oxford University in March, 2018.

• Selected for Participation in Prestigious ‘Leadership in Academician Program’ (LEAP) by IISER, Kolkata and ‘Leadership for Improving Higher Education in India (LIHEI)’, by Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, under MHRD, Govt. of India in February-March, 2019

• Expert for Melioidosis guidelines and research for ICMR, New Delhi and NCDC, New Delhi

• Founder Executive Committee member of International Melioidosis Network (IMN)

• Acknowledged as Top-cited scientist with a percentile rank of 2% or above based on the Sept 1, 2022 snapshot from Scopus, of citation year 2021 in the sub-field Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases by Elsevier through ICSR Lab (https://www.elsevier.com/icsr/icsrlab), done by Stanford University (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918; https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4)

• Patent Id : 00000455, Title of Work Item : “A COMPOSITION, METHOD, AND A KIT FOR SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF MULTIPLE PATHOGENS CAUSING CONGENITAL INFECTION”
• Patent Id: 202241002976, Title of Work Item : SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BACTERIA DETECTION FROM THE DIRECT GRAM STAIN SMEAR IMAGES

• Clinical Microbiologist

• Physician Scientist

• Infectious Diseases Specialist

• Director, Manipal Institute of Virology (MIV), Center of Excellence in Virus Research (GVN), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Institute of Eminence (IoE), Karnataka, India

• Ex-Associate Dean, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

• Professor, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

• Coordinator, Center for Emerging and Tropical Diseases, MAHE (https://cetd.farmingsyndicate.com/about-us/)

• Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair on ‘Emerging Tropical Bacterial Diseases’

• Leader in Melioidosis research in India (www.melioidosis.info)

• Lead in ICMR Task Force project ‘MISSION’ on Melioidosis

• Host and Administrator, Indian Melioidosis Research Forum

• Co-Organizer of South Asian Melioidosis Congress in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh