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Innate and adaptive immunity in children starting antiretroviral drugs in India

Collaborators

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University of Miami Florida, USA

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Principal Investigator US)

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Dr. Savita Pahwa

Funded By

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Indo-US Joint Working Group on Maternal and Child Health (NIH/ICMR)



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Behavioural risk factors and HIV seroprevalence among men who have sex with men in Chennai

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Harvard University

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Beena E Thomas

Principal Investigator (US)

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Dr. Steve Safren

Funded By

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), United States through Harvard Centre for AIDS Research

 

 

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of High-risk groups in relation to a future vaccine trial

Collaborators

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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Principal Investigator (India)

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Mrs. Mohanarani Suhadev

Principal Investigator (US)

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Dr. Adeline M Nyamathi

Funded By

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International core of the University for California, los angels, AIDS institutions, CFAR programme to the UCLA School of Nursing, USA Los Angels

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Changes in HIV viral load in patients undergoing treatment for filarial infection

Collaborators

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National Institute of Health

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan (TRC)
Dr. N. Kumarasamy (YRG Care)

Principal Investigator(US)

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Dr. Kawsar R Talaat

Funded By

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH






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Evaluation of a Diagnostic Algorithm for HIV positive TB suspects who are initially smear negative

Collaborators

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National AIDS Research Institute
Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. C. Padmapriyadarsini

Co-Investigators

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan (TRC)
Dr. Aleyamma Thomas (TRC)
Dr. Srikanth Tripathy (NARI)
Dr. S. Rajasekaran (GHTM)

Funded By

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United States Agency for International Development ( USAID )


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Functional Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Collaborators

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Sujatha Narayanan

Principal Investigator (US

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Dr. William R Jacobs

Funded By

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AITRP grant

 

 

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High resolution markers as tools for evaluation of tuberculosis control programmes in two Indian regions

Collaborators

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Institute of Pasteur Lille, France

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Sujatha Narayanan

Principal Investigator (US

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Dr. Philip Supply

Funded By

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ICMR & INSERM

 

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Comparative Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Collaborators

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Stanford University, University of California , USA

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Sujatha Narayanan

Principal Investigator (US)

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Dr. Susan Holmes

Funded By

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NIH





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Heterogeneity profiling of tuberculosis strains from different regions of India

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Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Biotechnology, Trivandrum

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Sujatha Narayanan

Principal Investigator (US)

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Dr. Satish Mundayoor

Funded By

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DBT grant


 

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Evaluation of newer BCG Vaccine

Collaborators

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Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi, South Campus

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. V.D.Ramanathan

Co-Investigators

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Funded By

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DBT grant

 

 

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Investigation of the pathogenicity of gene-disrupted strains of M.tuberculosis in the guinea pig

Collaborators

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Department of Biotechnology, AIIMS, New Delhi.

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. V.D.Ramanathan

Co-Investigators

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Funded By

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DBT grant

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Pharmacokinetics of efavirenz during anti-tuberculosis treatment with rifampicin-containing regimens

Collaborators

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Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Govt. Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram, Chennai

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Co-Investigators

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Dr.Geetha Ramachandran
Dr.A.K.Hemanth Kumar

Funded By

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The Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society

 

 

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Therapeutic drug monitoring of nevirapine and efavirenz in HIV infected children in India

Collaborators

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Dr. Ira Shah, B.J. Wadia Children's Hospital, Mumbai; Dr. S. Rajasekaran, GHTM, Tambaram, Chennai; Dr. Raghunandan, Kilpauk Medical College & Hospital, Chennai

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Co-Investigators

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Dr.Geetha Ramachandran
Dr.A.K.Hemanth Kumar

Funded By

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Pharmacokinetic studies of Moxifloxacin

Collaborators

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Dr. C.B. Tharani, Madras Medical College, Chennai

Principal Investigator (India)

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Dr. Geetha Ramachandran

Co-Investigator

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Dr.A.K.Hemanth Kumar

Funded By

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Epidemiology Studies

(a) A project on “Prevalence on pulmonary TB and infection in Tribal population of Madya Pradesh” was undertaken by Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribal (RMRCT) Jabalpur. The co-investigators from TB Research Centre (TRC) provided consultancy services in preparing the protocol, sample size estimation, sampling procedure and trained the staff of RMRCT in census, symptom elicitation, sputum collection in the field, sputum microscopy, data management and in computerization of the data.

(b) The project on “Survey on prevalence of pulmonary TB in Wardha district” undertook by Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Wardha, was provided technical assistance on sample size estimation, sampling procedure, selection of sample and in training the field staff, X-ray readers, Statistical assistant and Data Entry Operator by the co-investigators from TRC.

 

 

 

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