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| Name | Designation | Institute | Area Of Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajiv Bahl | Secretary, Department of Health Research & Director General, ICMR | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health |
| Ashoo Grover | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Standard Treatment Workflow |
| Kamini Walia | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Antimicrobial Diseases |
| Nivedita Gupta | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Viral Diseases, Vaccines, Polio, Acute encephalitis syndrome |
| R. S. Dhaliwal | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Non Communicable Diseases |
| Ruchi Singh | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Antimicrobial resistance; Infectious diseases: Leishmaniasis, Malaria; Development of diagnostics |
| Tanvir Kaur | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Endocrinology, Oncology |
| Taruna Madan Gupta | Scientist G & Head | ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi | Reproductive Immunology, HIV, Pregnancy, Preeclampsia, Gestational diabetes, Endometriosis, Prostate Cancer, Male infertility, Innate Immunity, Mesenchymal stem cells, Aspergillosis |
| Anupkumar R. Anvikar | Scientist G & Director-in-Charge | ICMR National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR-NJILOMD), Agra | |
| Manisha Srivastava | Scientist G & Director-in-Charge | ICMR Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Center (BMHRC), Bhopal | |
| Anup Anvikar | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Delhi | Communicable diseases |
| Aparup Das | Scientist G & Director | ICMR Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRCSVP), Sri Vijaya Puram | Malaria, Genomic Epidemiology |
| Bharati Kulkarni | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad | Public Health, Maternal & Child Nutrition |
| Bhavesh Modi | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute of Occupational Health Research (NIOHR), Ahmedabad | |
| Geetanjali Sachdeva | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute for Research on Women's Health (NIRWoH), Mumbai | Reproductive Biology |
| Hari Shanker Joshi | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Gorakhpur | Epidemiology, Maternal & Child Health, Infectious disease control, and Health policy |
| Krishna Pandey | Scientist G & Director | ICMR Rajendra Memorial National Institute of Health Research (RM NIHR), Patna | Epidemiology diagnosis and treatment of Kala-azar, PKDL, HIV-VL & Vector Borne diseases, WHO treatment guidelines for HIV-VL co-infection, PKDL and VL relapse, National protocols and research standards for visceral leishmaniasis management in India, member of WHO RTAG on NTD, Clinical Medicine / MBBS (Hons.), MD (General Medicine) |
| M Jeeva Sankar | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute of Child Health Research (NICHR), New Delhi |
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| Manisha Madkaikar | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute for Research on Blood and Immune Disorders (NIRBID), Mumbai | Hematology, Immunology, Genetics Sickle cell anemia, Inborn errors of immunity |
| Manju Rahi | Scientist G & Director | ICMR National Institute for Vector Control Research (NIVCR), Puducherry | Epidemiology, public health, Operational research, and vector-borne diseases |



