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IVS Young Scientist Awardees

Discipline	Name	Affiliation	Title	Brief CV
2024
PLANT VIROLOGY	DHARMAPPA D CHAVAN	PhD Scholar, Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-IARI New Delhi c/o Prof. Indranil Dasgupta, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi New Delhi-110021 India	Understanding the biochemical and molecular basis of resistance in soybean against MYMIV
PLANT VIROLOGY	Dibyendu Ghosh	Prime Minister Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi	A begomovirus inducible glycine rich protein (NbRBGA) promotes cell death and confers tolerance to begomovirus-betasatelite complex
VETERINARY VIROLOGY	Uzma Jabeen	ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Hebbal, Bengaluru 560 024, India	Evaluation of the DIVA compatibility and protective efficacy of negative marker vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease
MEDICAL VIROLOGY	Dr. PRYANKA THAKUR	Project Research Scientist-1 (Dept. of Medical Microbiology), PGIMER, Chandigarh-160012, India	ROLE OF NLRP-3 INFLAMMASOME AND BECLIN-1/LC3B AUTOPHAY GENE MARKERS IN THE MEDIATION OF VIRUS REPLICATION AND CYTOKINE STORM IN SEVERITY OF DENGUE PATIENTS
2023
PLANT VIROLOGY	Neelam	PhD. Scholar, CSIR Senior Research Fellow c/o Prof. Indranil Dasgupta, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi New Delhi-110021 India (+91 9871556384); Email: neelamjagram03@gmail.com	A comparative global transcriptomic study of Nicotiana benthamiana plants inoculated with cloned Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus DNA-A & DNA-A + DNA-B
MEDICAL VIROLOGY	Rima Rakeshkumar Sahay	Scientist 'C' (Medical) Maximum Containment Facility BSL-4 Facility, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, India dr.rima.sahay@gmail.com; sahay.rr@gov.in Mobile no: +91-8928955888	Effectiveness of two dose Covaxin, an Inactivated COVID19 vaccine in protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection: Sixmonth prospective cohort study
VETERINARY VIROLOGY	Nagaraj Nayak	Senior Research Fellow NIAB, Hyderabad bnagraj.nayak@gmail.com	Nuclear localization of accessory viral protein W of avian paramyxovirus triggers cell death
2022
PLANT VIROLOGY	Neelam	PhD. Scholar, CSIR Senior Research Fellow c/o Prof. Indranil Dasgupta, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi New Delhi-110021 India (+91 9871556384); Email: neelamjagram03@gmail.com	A comparative global transcriptomic study of Nicotiana benthamiana plants inoculated with cloned Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus DNA-A & DNA-A + DNA-B
MEDICAL VIROLOGY	Rima Rakeshkumar Sahay	Scientist 'C' (Medical) Maximum Containment Facility BSL-4 Facility, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, India dr.rima.sahay@gmail.com; sahay.rr@gov.in Mobile no: +91-8928955888	Effectiveness of two dose Covaxin, an Inactivated COVID19 vaccine in protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection: Sixmonth prospective cohort study
VETERINARY VIROLOGY	Nagaraj Nayak	Senior Research Fellow NIAB, Hyderabad bnagraj.nayak@gmail.com	Nuclear localization of accessory viral protein W of avian paramyxovirus triggers cell death
2021
PLANT VIROLOGY	Ashish Prasad	National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067 Email: ashishprasad0411@nipgr.ac.in, ashishprasad0411@gmail.com	Defense arsenal of tomato against ToLCNDV: Autophagy in the action
MEDICAL VIROLOGY	Swatantra Kumar	Senior Research Fellow (PhD Student), Centre for Advanced Research (CFAR), Faculty of Medicine, King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow 226003, India Email: swatantra15891@gmail.com	Mechanistic analysis of host-protein crosstalks during Japanese encephalitis virus mediated-neuropathogenesis and development of therapeutic and preventive interventions
VETERINARY VIROLOGY	Sonalika Mahajan	Scientist (Veterinary Microbiology) Division of Biological Standardization ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (Deemed University), Izatnagar, U.P.-243122, India Mobile No. 09627627924, Email: sonalikam1@gmail.com	Interaction of the host cellular protein NDUFAF4 with 2C protein of foot-and-mouth disease virus