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Sidhartha Giri

ICMR Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Sri Ramachandra University, Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (formerly VSS Medical College)

ORCID iD 0000-0003-3927-7392
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About

After completing my M.B.B.S and internship from V.S.S. Medical College, Odisha in 2005, I worked as a tutor in Community Medicine for a year. During my training, I identified infectious diseases as a particular area of interest, and joined Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai in 2008 for a M.D. in microbiology. After my M.D., I worked as a senior resident in microbiology at JIPMER, Puducherry, where I was mostly involved in diagnostics and teaching. It was becoming increasingly clear to me that a career largely in routine microbiology was not what I wanted to pursue. Hence, in 2012, I joined the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory (WTRL) at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, a leading clinical and public health research laboratory which has been conducting studies on the epidemiology of diarrheal diseases for over 50 years and has an established reputation. In the WTRL, I was involved in projects evaluating mucosal immunity to poliovirus and potential reasons for poor uptake of oral poliovirus vaccines in developing countries. I completed my Ph.D. at CMC under the guidance of Dr. Gagandeep Kang. This was an outstanding learning experience and enabled me to acquire skills in a number of areas in public health research.

Subsequently, I joined the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Govt. of India, where my focus was on respiratory viral diseases. Initially, I supervised the activities of the Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) network from the Department of Health Research, Govt. of India, New Delhi. During January to July 2020, I was part of the ICMR core research team on COVID-19 at ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi. In August 2020, I joined the ICMR- Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar. During 2020-2021, I was involved in the COVID-19 sero-surveys in Odisha, which was conducted among the general population and high-risk population. Currently, I supervise the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Tuberculosis at RMRC, Bhubaneswar. As part of the NRL, I and my team supervise the TB diagnostic activities under the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP) in 10 states (Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim, and 7 states in the north-east).

Employment

  • ICMR Regional Medical Research Centre Scientist E
    2020 - Present
  • Indian Council of Medical Research Scientist E
    2019 - 2020
  • Christian Medical College Associate Professor
    2018 - 2019
  • Christian Medical College, Vellore Assistant Professor
    2013 - 2018
  • Christian Medical College, Vellore Senior medical resident
    2012 - 2013
  • Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education Senior resident
    2011 - 2012

Education

  • Sri Ramachandra University MD
    2008 - 2011
  • Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (formerly VSS Medical College) MBBS
    1999 - 2004

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