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Indian Institute Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal
Principal Investigator: Dr. Debasis Nayak
Our research and development activities support "One Health" concept. We work in collaboration with, scientists, researchers, clinicians, veterinarians, farmers and policymakers to promote human and animal health. Our key target area is infectious diseases, food safety and animal well-being.
Ongoing Projects
1. Project Title: Generation of novel high-affinity human monoclonal antibody cocktail against rabies virus for efficacious post-exposure prophylaxis.
PI: Dr Akanksha Chaturvedi, NCCS, Pune.
Co-PI: Dr Debasis Nayak, IISER Bhopal.
Funding: Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Research Grant Award for the year 2022
Funding Agency: Sree Padmavati Venkateswara Foundation
2. Project: Generation of Nipah virus minigenome reporter replicon for high-throughput antiviral screening.
PI- Dr Debasis Nayak, IISER Bhopal.
Co-PI: Dr Ajit Chande, IISER Bhopal.
Funding agency: ICMR, Govt. of India
3. Project: SERB-PACE (Precision Antibodies Engineering CEnter), https://serbpace.iiserb.ac.in/
PI: Dr. Vishal Rai, IISER Bhopal
Co-PI: Dr. Debasis Nayak (IISER Bhopal)
Dr. Ram Kumar Mishra (IISER Bhopal)
Dr. Sanjeev Shukla (IISER Bhopal)
Dr. Akanksha Chaturvedi, NCCS, Pune.
Dr. Satyendra K Singh, KGMU, Lucknow.
Funding Agency: SERB-DST, Govt. of India
Completed Projects
1. Project: Seroepidemiology and molecular characterization of bovine ephemeral fever virus isolates prevalent in Eastern India
Funding Agency: DST/SERB (2016-2019)
2. Project: Development of a portable acoustic sensor based canine pregnancy detection system and biomarker-based canine pregnancy test kit. 2018-2020
Funding agency: DBT (2018-2020)
3. Project: Development of a vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein based virus-like nanoparticles platform for targeted drug delivery.
Funding agency: Nano Mission / DST (2018-2019)
Co-PI: Dr. Sharad Gupta (IIT Indore)
Dr. Santibhusan Senapati (ILS, Bhubaneswar)
4. Project: Development of a chikungunya candidate vaccine in vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) gene delivery platform
Funding agency: DBT, Govt. of India
Assigned role Co-PI
PI: Dr. Sujatha Sunil (ICGEB, New Delhi)
5. Project: Development of multi-spectral photoacoustic imaging and sensing system for non-invasive imaging and characterization of tumor vasculature during angiogenesis using zebrafish xenograft and chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model
Assigned role Co-PI
PI: Dr. Dr. Srivathsan Vasudevan, EE, IIT Indore
Funding agency: SERB, DST, Govt. of India
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