Name of Scientists

  Dr. D. S. Chauhan

  Designation

  Senior Research Officer/ Scientist C.

  Date of Birth

  June 01, 1966

  Discipline

  Microbiology and Molecular Biology

  Address Office

  Department of  Microbiology and Molecular Biology,
  National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR)
  Dr. M. Myazaki Marg, Tajganj , Agra -282001 (INDIA)

  Address Residence

  49, Nikhil Garden, Tajnagari Phase II, Fatehabad Road, Agra-282001

  Date of Joining

  June, 09,1997

  Date of Present Post

 November, 08, 2001

  Department

 Microbiology and Molecular Biology

  Research Experience

 12 years.

  Foreign Visits

1. Visited  Institut Pasteur de Lille and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France under ICMR-INSERM project  from 6th -17th Dec,2004.
2. Participation in the training in use of micro grid II spotter to Uunited Kingdom from 2005-09-19 to 2005-09-24
3. Visited CDC Atlanta USA from 9th - 11th April 2008 to attend 3rd International Conference on TB Vaccines and presented oral paper entitled "Micriarrays (DNA Chip) based identification of novel efflux pump genes in M. TB as potential drug, diagnostics and vaccine targets."

  Educational Qualification

  M.Sc., Ph.D.

  Membership

1.  Life member of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists
2. Life member of Indian Association of Leprologists.

Extramural Projects Running as Principal Investigator

1.  Principal investigator of DBT funded project to develop indigenously diagnostic kit for TB by Real-Time PCR. (26 lacs)
2.  Principal investigator of CSIR funded project on OSDD. (18 lacs)
3.  Principal investigator of ICAR funded project on Zoonotic diseases. (74 lacs)
4.  Principal investigator of FIND funded project on LPA for Tuberculosis. (5.45 lacs)

  Areas of Interest

 Microbiology and Molecular Biology of Mycobacteria and other pathogens

  Awards & Honors

1. Young scientist award for best paper presentation entitled "Confirmation of identification of non-tuberculous mycobacterial isolates by using 16S rRNA sequencing" at 3rd Convention of Society of Immunology and Immunopathology (SIIP), Agra, during 13-15 February, 2004 
2. Best meritorious award in International Conference of Leprosy held at Hyderabad from 29th Jan- 4th Feb 08 given by Sh. Reddy, H'ble Health Minister, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
3. Best Research Paper award in First Internation Conference of ASEAN and National Conference on TB and Chest Diseases (NATCON) 2008 given by H'ble APJ Abdul Kalam.

  Patents Granted/ Filed

1. Expression of virulence factors of M.leprae in host during infection by functional genomic approaches. (Indian Patent Application No- 2012/DEL/2006)
2. Probes and primers for identification of mycobacterial proteins useful as potential drug targets. (Indian Patent Application No-884/DEL/2007)
3. Novel probes, primers and DNA Chip. (Indian Patent Application No-2071/DEL/2007

  Publications

 Published more than 55 research papers in National as well as Internationla journals.

  Conferences Attended