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Dr. Sarman Singh graduated in medicine from King George's Medical College
Lucknow in 1982 and obtained postgraduate diploma in hospital administration
in 1985. In 1987 he obtained his MD (Microbiology) degree from prestigious
PGIMER, Chandigarh. Immediately after that he moved to premier AIIMS,
New Delhi as senior resident. At AIIMS he rose to the present position
of Additional Professor, where he is heading the Microbiology Division
of Laboratory Medicine. He has also worked as National Consultant WHO/NACO
and worked on HIV/AIDS, and STDs : their diagnostics, epidemilogy and
Hospital infection control during 1999-2000.
In 1990 he was trained at one of the best school of epidemiology, the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and successfully completed a short
term training in epidemiology of infectious diseases. Recently he has
also been trained in ethical issues on International Health Research from
Harvard University (USA) & University of Natal, South Africa and on
Intellectual Property Rights by the National Law School, Bangalore, India.
His major research interests include HIV/AIDS, Opportunistic pathogens,
Mycobacteria, Leishmania & Toxoplasma.
Has been awarded long term fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology,
Govt. Of India, and worked with Prof. KP Chang at Chicago, USA during
1994-95. Also awarded by ICMR for his original work on Toxoplasmosis and
its association with Iodine deficiency in tribal populations and twice
by International Immuno-Compromised Host Society (USA) for his work on
Toxoplasmosis in AIDS and Cytomegalovirus in organs transplant recipients.
He has 5 patents to his credit including 2 on Leishmaniasis, 2 on Mycobacteria
& 1 on Toxoplasma diagnostics. A unique recombinant protein (ld-rKE16)
with 100% sensitivity and specificity, expressed from Leishmania donovani
which has been commercialized successfully with the name of signal KA
rapid test. He has also identified specific PCR primers for the Mycobacterial
tuberculosis and for identifying Leishmania donovani strains that cause
VL and PKDL forms of disease. He has traveled extensively and presented
papers in more than 5o International Conferences. He is on the board of
reviewer for various Journals and funding agencies.
He is member of various National & International Societies including
National Academy of Medical Sciences, IMA, ISG, IALP, IAMM, International
AIDS Society, American Society of Microbiology, International Immuno-Compromised
Host Society (USA) etc. He is founder General Secretary of Indian Association
of Laboratory Physicians and President of ABHAS. He has directed several
independent and collaborative research projects on Tuberculosis, Leishmaniasis,
Toxoplasmosis and AIDS. He has supervised 9 Ph.Ds and over 20 MD theses.
Dr. Singh has written 6 books and 25 chapters in various books and has
245 publications in national and International journals/proceedings. This
included 4 publications in the Lancet.
Dr. Singh has organized various national and International Conferences,
workshop and meetings. The recent ones being the International Symposium
on Leishmaniasis (2002) and International Conference on Opportunistic
Pathogens in AIDS (ICOPA-INDIA, 2006). Dr. Singh enjoys taking challenges.
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