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Dr Gagandeep Kang

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Executive Director,
Translational Health Science Technology Institute

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Professional Recognition

2016

Fellowship

Indian National Science Academy
2016

Fellowship

Faculty of Public Health, UK
2013

Fellowship

National Academy of Sciences
2011

Fellowship

Indian Academy of Sciences
2010

Fellowship

American Academy of Microbiology
2015

Dr. S.C. Parija Oration Award

Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology
2008

Dr. Y.S. Narayana Rao Oration Award

Indian Council of Medical Research
2009

Abbott Oration Award

Indian Society for Gastroenterology
2006

National Award for Woman Bioscientist of the Year

Government of India
2005

Lourdu Yedanapalli Award for Excellence in Research

Christian Medical College Vellore
1998

Fellowship

Dr. P.N. Berry
1988

National Talent Scholarship

For M.D. Microbiology
1981

National Talent Scholarship

For MBBS
2016

Infosys Prize in Life Sciences

Infosys Science Foundation

Community & Membership

Scientific Advisory Group, Paediatric Biology Research Center, Translational Health Scienc

Member

Scientific Advisory Group, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Center, Translational H

Member

International Strategic Advisory Committee, Global Enteric Microbiology Study, Bill and Me

Member

Technical Working Group, Global Invasive Bacterial Vaccine Preventable Disease and Rotavir

Member
2011

Water Purification System Sectional Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards

Member
2011

Global Advisory Committee for Vaccine Safety, World Health Organization

Member
2013

Scientific Advisory Group, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea

Member

Advisory Committee, Immunization and Vaccines related Implementation Research, World Healt

Member
2012

Scientific Advisory Committee, Biomedical Genomics Centre, Kolkata

Member
2013

Scientific Advisory Committee, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics

Member
2013

Discovery Expert Group, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Member
2013

International Society for Infectious Diseases, USA

Council Member
2013

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council Department of Biotechnology

Independent Director
2013

National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Member

Technical Advisory Committee, Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey, Ministry of Heal

Member
2014

MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories, New Delhi

Independent Director (Wellcome Trust nominee)

South-East Asia Region Immunization Technical Advisory Group, World Health Organization, N

Chairperson
2014

Strategic Advisory Group for Cryptosporidium, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Member

Scientific Organizing Committee of the Global Vaccine and Immunization Research Forum, Wor

Member
2015

The Leprosy Mission India Research Committee

Member
2015

Research Area Panel, National Institute of Immunology

Member

Scientific Advisory Committee, Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council for

Member
2015

Scientific Advisory Committee, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance

Member

Technical Advisory Committee for National Nutrition Survey (Parasitology), Child Health

Member

Project Advisory Committee, Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Scien

Chairperson
2016

International Society for Infectious Diseases

Executive Committee Member
2016

Sectional Committee for Medicine, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru

Member

Technical Advisory Group for microbiota-directed intervention research, Bill & Melinda Ga

Member
2016

Scientific Committee, Inter Academy for Health on “Promoting Health”.

Member
2016

Sun Pharma Science Foundation

Governing Council Member

Expert Committee on Life Sciences for the “Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in U

Member
2016

Childhood Anaemia Taskforce, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi

Member

Expert Committee for “Biodesign & Bioengineering programme'' established at Indian Institu

Member

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) Council of Scientif

Member

Board of Governors of National Institutes of Technology, Department of Higher Educatio

Member
2016

Scientific Advisory Committee , Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Member

American Academy of Microbiology

2010
Life Member

Royal College of Pathologists

2008
Life Member

Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists

Life Member

Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists

Life Member

Indian Society for Gastroenterology

Life Member

Hospital Infection Society-India

Life Member

American Society for Microbiology

Life Member

Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology

Life Member

American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Life Member

Indian Society for Clinical Research

Life Member

Bio

Vaccines, enteric infections

Personal Details

  • Female
  • Executive Director , Translational Health Science Technology Institute
  • Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Ph.D (Microbiology)
Christian Medical College and Hospital 1997
Executive Director Aug 2016 – Present
Translational Health Science Technology Institute

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Gagandeep

Dr Gagandeep Kang

Executive Director

Co-Authors (3)

Devendra Tarachand

Dr Devendra Tarachand Mourya

National Institute of Virology

Nirmala

Dr Nirmala Agarwal

Sant Parmanand Hospital

Sunita

Dr Sunita Taneja

Centre for Health Research and Development

Scholarly Work

Planning for typhoid surveillance, typhoid vaccine evaluation and environmental surveillance in India.

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Principal Investigator

$236,785

2016 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Impact of maternally derived antibodies and infant microbiota on the immunogenicity of rotavirus vaccines in African, Indian and European infants

Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 10,023,800

2015 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Impact assessment study of rotavirus vaccine linked to the National Rotavirus Surveillance Network and Intussusception surveillance

Funding Agency: CDC Foundation, Atlanta

Principal Investigator

$ 12,75,299/-

2015 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Susceptibility and development of protective immunity to norovirus in a South Indian birth cohort

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Principal Investigator

$473,953/-

2015 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Rotavirus correlates of protection

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Site Principal Investigator

$ 73,535/-

2015 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Identification of enteric pathogens in children participating in the ROTAVAC efficacy trial

Funding Agency: Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH), USA

Laboratory Director

$ 1,28,008/-

2015 - 2016

Completed
Family Health Research Platform

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Site PI-sub-grant from Society for Applied Studies

$684,143

2015 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Tufts CMC Framework Program for Global Health Innovation

Funding Agency: National Institute of Health, USA

Multiple PI-with Christine Wanke and Honorine Ward

$671,808

2014 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Early implementation of rollout of rotavirus vaccine in the public health system under monitoring

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Principal Investigator

$16,84,168.91

2013 - Ongoing

Ongoing
B and T cell responses to rotavirus infection and vaccination in Indian infants

Funding Agency: Indo-US HIPC grant Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 1,04,06,002

2013 - 2015

Completed
Facilitation of the Indian National Rotavirus Surveillance

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Principal Investigator

$496,946

2012 - 2016

Completed
Treatment of Enteric Infections among Indian Infants to Improve their Response to Oral Poliovirus Vaccine

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (Site PI-Sub-grant from Imperial College, London)

Site Principal Investigator

$ 2,067,022

2012 - 2016

Completed
Effect of inactivated poliovirus vaccine on gut immunity against poliovirus in children who have received oral polio vaccine

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA

Co-investigator

US$633,634

2012 - 2014

Completed
Predictors of poor immune response to rotavirus vaccine in infants

Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 44,50,800

2012 - 2014

Completed
National hospital based Rotavirus Surveillance Network

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 4,91,54,620

2012 - 2016

Completed
Supplementation with zinc and or probiotics to enhance the immune response of oral rotavirus and polio vaccines in Indian infants

Funding Agency: Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH), USA

Principal Investigator

$644,817

2012 - 2014

Completed
BRV Ph3 clinical study

Funding Agency: Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH), USA

Laboratory Director

$1,691,008

2012 - Ongoing

Ongoing
An open label post licensure trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of indigenously manufactured Killed Bivalent (O1 and O139) Whole Cell Oral Cholera Vaccine (Shanchol)

Funding Agency: International Vaccine Institute, Korea

Co-investigator

$24,213

2012 - 2012

Completed
HIV, ART and the intestinal microbiota.

Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, USA / Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi

Co-investigator

$930,868

2011 - 2013

Completed
Effect of probiotic and zinc supplementation on systemic immune response to oral rotavirus and oral poliovirus vaccination

Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 62,20,200/-

2011 - 2014

Completed
Epidemiology of Novel Human Astroviruses

Funding Agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA

Principal Investigator

Rs. 15,16,828/-

2010 - 2012

Completed
Rotavirus Surveillance in India and in the SEA Region.

Funding Agency: World Health Organization, New Delhi

Laboratory Director

Rs. 36,86,700/- per

2010 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Phase III randomized double blind placebo controlled trial to evaluate the protective efficacy of three doses of Oral Rotavirus Vaccine (ORV) 116E against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants.

Funding Agency: Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH), USA /Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 4,78,99,901/- (D

2010 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Building enteric infectious disease research capacity in India

Funding Agency: Fogarty International Center, USA

Program Director

US$2287505

2010 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Clinical immunology laboratory assays in PVS’ ongoing Advancing Rotavirus Vaccine Development (ARVAC) Project

Funding Agency: Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH), USA

Principal Investigator

Rs. 67,73,199/-

2010 - 2013

Completed
Probiotics for infectious diarrhea in children in south India

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

$ 110,144

2010 - 2012

Completed
Establishment of Core Vaccine Research Unit (CVRU)

Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 30,00,000/-

2010 - 2013

Completed
Phase I/II randomized double blind placebo-controlled, dosage selection study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a 3 dose series of Live Attenuated Tetravalent (G1-G4) Bovine-Human Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine (BRV-TV) administer

Funding Agency: Shantha Biotechnics Limited, Hyderabad

Principal Investigator

Rs. 85,43,180/-

2010 - 2010

Completed
Standardize the immunological assays of BRV by providing common reagents, uniform protocol and training to the clinical immunology laboratory of each manufactures, and establish a reference laboratory

Funding Agency: Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH), USA

Principal Investigator

US$ 1,304,577/-

2010 - 2013

Completed
Comprehensive Investigation into the Risk Factors of Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health

Funding Agency: Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, USA

Site PI-direct grant from FNIH

$2,787,677

2009 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Immune response to cryptosporidiosis in a birth cohort of children of South India

Funding Agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA

Principal Investigator

US$13,68,597/-

2009 - 2015

Completed
Impact of demographic and social change on gastroenteric viral infections

Funding Agency: British Council (UK-India Educational and Research Initiative)

Principal Investigator

Rs. 9,39,390/-

2009 - 2011

Completed
Efficacy of Albendazole in reducing fecal off counts in hookworm infestation in previously treated individuals

Funding Agency: World Health Organization, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

$15,000/-

2008 - 2008

Completed
Transmission dynamics of cryptosporidial infections in India

Funding Agency: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA

Principal Investigator

$ 1,43,34,615/-

2008 - 2012

Completed
Fut2 and ABO gene polymorphisms in determination of susceptibility to noroviral infection

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 36,52,446/-

2008 - 2011

Completed
Hospital based randomized control trial of racecadotril in acute diarrhoeal disease in children 6 months to 5 years of age

Funding Agency: Swedish International Development Agency

Principal Investigator

Rs. 28,61,976/-

2008 - 2011

Completed
Production and delivery of antibody fragments against gastrointestinal pathogens by lactobacilli

Funding Agency: European Union

Principal Investigator

Euro 700,996/-

2008 - 2012

Completed
Characterization of human caliciviruses from India and expression of recombinant capsid proteins in insect cells using the baculovirus system

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 24,00,000/-

2007 - 2010

Completed
Molecular surveillance for neonatal rotavirus disease and strains

Funding Agency: Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 12,91,620/-

2006 - 2009

Completed
Multi-disciplinary research training in enteric infections

Funding Agency: Fogarty International Center, USA

Program Director

US$ 7,45,152/-

2005 - 2010

Completed
Establishment of hospital based surveillance for rotavirus disease and strains in India

Funding Agency: CDC Foundation, USA

Principal Investigator

US$ 1,31,868/-

2005 - 2008

Completed
Establishment of hospital based surveillance for rotavirus disease and strains in India

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 31,00,280/-

2005 - 2010

Completed
Molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in India

Funding Agency: Fogarty International Center, USA

Principal Investigator

US$ 1,03,952/-

2005 - 2008

Completed
Planning enteric infection research in southern India

Funding Agency: Fogarty International Center, USA

Principal Investigator

US$ 24,514/-

2004 - 2005

Completed
Hospital-based retrospective surveillance for intussusception to assess the incidence of intussusception in children <5 Years of age.

Funding Agency: GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, India.

Principal Investigator

Rs. 1,60,800/-

2004 - 2005

Completed
A multicenteric study on surveillance and molecular characterization of human viruses (HuCVs) from cases of acute gastroenteritis

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 29,65,620/-

2003 - 2006

Completed
Epidemiology of human calicivirus infections in acute gastroenteritis and food borne disease

Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

0

2003 - 2006

Completed
Molecular genotyping of Cryptosporidium parvum from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with HIV infection

Funding Agency: Tufts-Brown Fogarty AIDS International Research and Training Grants

Principal Investigator

US$ 35,800/-

2002 - 2004

Completed
Molecular genotyping of Cryptosporidium parvum from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with HIV infection

Funding Agency: Tufts-Brown Fogarty AIDS International Research and Training Grants

Principal Investigator

US$ 35,800/-

2002 - 2004

Completed
Implications of paediatric gastrointestinal and hepatic infections for public health policy and practice in south India

Funding Agency: British Council Higher Education Links Program

Principal Investigator

Rs. 9,50,000/-

2002 - 2005

Completed
Molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidial infections in HIV infected individuals in south India

Funding Agency: Fogarty International Center, USA

Principal Investigator

Rs. 17,50,000/-

2002 - 2004

Completed
Correlates of protection against rotaviral gastroenteritis in children in Vellore, India

Funding Agency: The Wellcome Trust, UK

Principal Investigator

Rs. 2,91,67,900/-

2001 - 2008

Completed
Aetiological study of diarrhoea in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation

Funding Agency: Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi

Principal Investigator

Rs. 2,36,110/-

1996 - 1998

Completed

Molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis and characterization of the human immune response to Cryptosporidium spp. in South India

University The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Year 2010

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF MOLECULAR MTHODS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF ENTERIC CALICIVIRUSES IN FOOD BORNE DISEASE AND HUMAN INFECTIONS

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2010

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CORRELATES OF PROTECTION AGAINST ROTAVIRAL GASTROENTERITIS IN CHILDREN IN VELLORE, SOUTH INDIA

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2009

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ROTAVIRUS INFECTION IN HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN AND NEONATES IN INDIA

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2009

DETECTION AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION OF ZOONOTIC ENTERIC PATHOGENS IN ANIMALS AND HUMANS IN SOUTHERN INDIA

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2012

A study of the prevalence, incidence and molecular characterisation of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in South India

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2013

Genetic and Molecular studies of Calicivirus in India

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2013

Evaluation of immune responses to Rotavirus vaccination in Indian infants’

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2015

ROLL OF TOLL LIKE RECEPTORS AND MANNOS BINDING LECTINS IN INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE T CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS

University The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University
Year 2016
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Scholarly Publications

Pathogenesis of rotavirus gastroenteritis

Open Access
article
Authors: M. K. Estes and G. Kang and C. Q. Zeng and S. E. Crawford and M. Ciarlet

Epidemiological and laboratory investigations of outbreaks of diarrhoea in rural South India: implications for control of disease

Open Access
article
Authors: Kang, G.;Ramakrishna, B. S.;Daniel, J.;Mathan, M.;Mathan, V. I.

Distribution of rotavirus G and P types in North and South Indian children with acute diarrhoea in 1998–1999

Open Access
article

ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION IN A RABBIT MODEL

Open Access
article
Authors: Kang, G.;Pulimood, A. B.;Mathan, M. M.;Mathan, V. I.

A Monkey Model for Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Infection

Open Access
article
Authors: Kang, Gagandeep;Pulimood, Anna B.;Koshi, Rachel;Hull, Anne;Acheson, David;Rajan, Prasanna;Keusch, Gerald T.;Mathan, V. I.;Mathan, Minnie M.

Rotavirus and intussusception: A new animal model

Open Access
article
Authors: Kelly L. Warfield and Sarah E. Blutt and Gagandeep Kang and Mary K. Estes and Margaret E. Conner

A prospective study of nosocomial enteric pathogen acquisition in hospitalised children in South India

Open Access
article
Authors: Kamalaratnam CN, Kang G, Kirubakaran C, Rajan DP. Daniel DJ, Mathan MM, Mathan VI

Glomerular injury induced in mice by intraperitoneal injection of Shiga-like toxins

Open Access
article
Authors: Koshi R, Pulimood AB, Date A, Kang G, Acheson D, Mathan MM