Speakers - 2025

Biography

Working as a professor in the Department of Microbiology, AIIMS, New Delhi. Academic activity includes teaching UG (MBBS) and postgraduate medical (MD) and DM (infectious disease) students and guiding PhD students. Research activities include understanding host-pathogen relations and molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Meningococcal meningitidis. Interest also involves understanding HIV immunology. Had been involved in vaccine development of rotavirus vaccine for India which  led to the development, licensing and finally implementation of the rotavirus vaccine (Rotavac)  based on  AIIMS neonatal rotavirus 116E , currently a part of expanded program of immunization for children in  India