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.