Table 1.
Major Indian Biomedical Research Groups Working with the CHIKV.
| No | Institute | Principal Investigator | Department/Area of Interest | Funding | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | AIIMS | Rakesh Lodha | Department of Pediatrics | New Delhi | |
| 2. | BBIL | K. Sumathy | BBIL | Hyderabad | |
| 3. | CRME | Brij Kishore Tyagi | Vector-borne Diseases | DBT, CSIR | Madurai |
| 4. | CSTM | Anusri Tripathi | Molecular Biology & Molecular Genetics | Kolkata | |
| 5. | DRDE | Manmohan Parida | Division of Virology | DRDO | Gwalior |
| 6. | DRDE | Paban Kumar Dash | Division of Virology | DRDO | Gwalior |
| 7. | DRDE | P.V. Lakshmana Rao | Division of Virology | DRDO | Gwalior |
| 8. | DRDE | S.R. Santhosh | Division of Virology | DRDO | Gwalior |
| 9. | ICGEB | Sujatha Sunil | Vector Borne Diseases | CSIR, DBT, DST, ICGEB, Ministry of Ayush | New Delhi |
| 10. | ICMR | Shyamalendu Chatterjee | Epidemiology | ICMR | Kolkata |
| 11. | ICMR- RMRC | Paluru Vijayachari | Molecular Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology | DBT, ICMR-RMRC | Port Blair |
| 12. | ICMR-VCRC | Muniaraj Mayilsamy | Parasitology | ICMR | Madurai |
| 13. | ICMR-VCRC | Narendran Pradeep Kumar | Vector Biology & Control | ICMR | Kottayam |
| 14. | IIM | Dileep Mavalankar | Center for Management of Health Services Public Systems Group | Ahmedabad | |
| 15. | IITD | Ashok Kumar Patel | Virology | DST, DBT | New Delhi |
| 16. | IITR | Shailly Tomar | Antiviral Research, Molecular and Structural Virology | DBT, DST, DRDO, ICMR | Roorkee |
| 17. | ILS | Soma Chattopadhyay | Infectious Disease Biology | UGC, DBT, DST, ICMR | Bhubaneswar |
| 18. | JH | Pratima Ray | Department of Biotechnology | DBT | New Delhi |
| 19. | JMI | Shama Parveen | Evolution of Dengue and Chikungunya Viruses | UGC, CCRUM, DST, CSIR, ICMR | New Delhi |
| 20. | Narayana Nethralaya Post Graduate Institute of Ophthalmology | Padmamalini Mahendradas | Ophthalmology | Bangalore | |
| 21. | NIE | Vidya Ramachandran | Impacts of CHIKV Outbreaks in Chennai | ICMR-NIE | Chennai |
| 22. | NIE | Manoj V. Murhekar | ICMR | Chennai | |
| 23. | NIMHANS | Vasanthapuram Ravi | Department of Neurovirology | Bangalore | |
| 24. | NIRRH | Itta Krishna Chaaithanya | Vector Biology and Clinical Virology | ICMR, DBT | Mumbai |
| 25. | NIV | Vidya A. Arankalle | Virology and Vaccinology | ICMR, NIV | Pune |
| 26. | NIV | Kalichamy Alagarasu | Dengue/Chikungunya Group | SERB | Pune |
| 27. | NIV | Akhilesh Chandra Mishra | Epidemiology and Control Planning of Vector-borne Diseases | ICMR | Pune |
| 28. | NIV | Devendra Tarachand Mourya | Molecular Virology and Epidemiology | NIV | Pune |
| 29. | NIV | Sarah S. Cherian | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | NIV | Pune |
| 30. | NIV | Deepti Parashar | Molecular Virology | ICMR | Pune |
| 31. | RGCB | Easwaran Sreekumar | Molecular Virology Laboratory | DBT | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 32. | RMRC | Prafulla Dutta | Arbovirology Group | ICMR | Dibrugarh |
AIIMS—All India Institute of Medical Sciences; BBIL—Bharat Biotech International Ltd.; CRME—Centre for Research in Medical Entomology; CSTM—Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine; DRDE—Defense Research and Development Establishment; ICGEB—International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; ICMR—Indian Council of Medical Research; RMRC: Regional Medical Research Centre; VCRC—Vector Control Research Centre; IIM: Indian Institute of Management; IITD—Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; IITR: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; ILS—Institute of Life Sciences; JH—Jamia Hamdard; JMI—Jamia Millia Islamia; NIE—National Institute of Epidemiology; NIMHANS: National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences; NIRRH: National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health; NIV: National Institute of Virology; RGCB—Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology; UGC—University Grants Commission; CSIR—Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; SERB: Science and Engineering Research Board; DRDO—Defense Research and Development Organization; DST: Department of Science and Technology; CCRUM—Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine.