Internal and External Projects
Research Projects at ICAR-NIHSAD
| Sl. No. | Title of the project | Duration | PI Co-PIs Co-I |
Service Project |
| 1. | Surveillance of Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases in Indian and Imported Livestock & Poultry and Their Products. | April, 2009-Continuing | Aniket Sanyal H.V. Murugukar, C. Tosh, N. Mishra, Sandeep Bhatia, A. A. Raut K. Rajukumar, S. Nagarajan, G. Venkatesh, A. Mishra, Atul K. Pateriya, Manoj Kumar, S. B. Sudhakar, Fateh Singh, P. N. Gandhale, S. Kalaiyarasu, Senthil Kumar D., and Naveen Kumar |
Institute Funded |
| 2. | Development of Herpes Virus of Turkey Virus Vector expressing HA gene(s) of H5 Avian Influenza Virus. | April, 2023 to March, 2025 | S. Nagarajan C. Tosh, Manoj Kumar, Senthil Kumar D. and Naveen Kumar |
| 3. | Adaptation and Transmission of clade 2.3.4.4.b highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) in mammals. | April, 2023 to March, 2025 | Manoj Kumar S. Nagarajan, C. Tosh, H.V. Murugkar and Naveen Kumar |
| 4. | Development of CRISPR-Cas9 expressing African swine fever virus (ASFV) permissive cell line for rapid generation of ASFV mutants. | April, 2023 to March, 2025 | Senthil Kumar D. K. Rajukumar, G. Venkatesh and Fateh Singh |
| 5. | Mapping High-Risk Areas of Ganjam Virus in Madhya PRadesh using Molecular Analysis of Ticks. | April, 2023 to March, 2024 | P.N. Gandhale H.V. Murugkar and K. Rajukumar |
| 6. | Surveillance of wild birds for avian influenza viruses in the wetlands of India. | Oct 2020 to Sep 2023 | C. Tosh Manoj Kumar, S. Nagarajan and H.V.Murugkar |
| 7. | Studies on in-contact transmission potential of H5 avian influenza viruses in Crows. | Oct 2020 to Sep 2023 | Manoj Kumar C. Tosh, S. Nagarajan and H. V. Murugkar |
| 8. | Development of recombinant P32 Antigen-based ELISA for detection of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus (LSDV) antibodies in Cattle. | Oct 2020 to Sep 2023 | S.B. Sudhakar N. Mishra, S. Kalaiyarasu and Atul Kumar Pateriya |
| 9. | Studies on safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of BVDV vaccine candidate(s) in cattle. | Oct 2020 to Sep 2023 | S. Kalaiyarasu N. Mishra, S.B. Sudhakar and Richa Sood |
| 10. | Investigation of porcine faecal metavirome to elucidate evolutionary relationships of viruses. | Oct, 2020 to Sep, 2023 | Fateh Singh K. Rajukumar, G. Venkatesh and Senthil Kumar D. |
ICAR Funded |
| 11. | Development and evaluation of genetically engineered vaccine candidates for African swine nfever, Equine Herpes virus-1 and Equine Influenza (clade 1 & 2). | July 2022 to June 2025 | K. Rajukumar Senthil Kumar D., G. Venkatesh and Fateh Singh |
| 12. | ICAR CRP on Vaccine & Diagnostics Funded Project entitled: Development of recombinant HA based indirect ELISA for detection of antibodies against H1N1 swine influenza virus in pigs. | Dec 2022 to Jan 2026 | G. Venkatesh K. Rajukumar, Fateh Singh and Senthil Kumar D. |
| 13. | ICAR CRP on Vaccine & Diagnostics Funded Project entitled: Development of Lateral Flow Assay for Detection of Avian Influenza virus infection. | Dec 2022 to Jan 2026 | Atul Kumar Pateriya Sandeep Bhatia and Naveen Kumar |
| 14. | Studies on host pathogen interactions and development of vaccine for zoonotic coronaviruses.. | June 2021 to May 2024 | Sandeep Bhatia Richa Sood, Anamika Mishra, Senthil Kumar D. Fateh Singh, Manoj Kumar, Atul Kumar Pateriya and Naveen Kumar |
| 15. | Development of diagnostics for coronavirus infections. | June 2021 to Nov 2023 | Naveen Kumar Sandeep Bhatia |
| 16. | Epidemiological studies and development of antiviral therapeutics against Coronaviruses. | June 2021 to May 2024 | A. A. Raut Anamika Mishra and Atul Kumar Pateriya |
Externally Funded |
| 17. | Protein Nanoparticle based development of universal influenza vaccine (DST-SERB-Core Research Grand) in collaboration with IIT, Roorkee. | Jan 2021 to Feb 2024 | Naveen Kumar Manoj Kumar and Sandeep Bhatia |
| 18. | ILRI-ICAR Collaborative Proposal Development of vaccines for prioritized exotic and emerging animal diseases. . | April, 2023 to March, 2026 | ASF: K. Rajukumar
RVF: Niranjan Mishra
MERS: Ashwin A. Raut,
ASF: Senthil Kumar RVF:, S Kalaiyarasu MERS: P. N. Gandhale |
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