ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
EXTERNALLY FUNDED
| Sr. No. | Title | Team | From | To | |
| 1 | National One Health Program on Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Diseases (NOHPPCZ)
Project: Regional Coordination center under program for Inter-Sectoral Coordination for prevention and control of Zoonotic Diseases |
Bacterial Diseases: Harisankar Singha, Shanmugasundaram K, Anubha
Viral Diseases: Riyesh T. |
June, 2019 | March, 2026 | |
| 2 | Development of ML and ANN-based breed and individual identification system for equine population differentiation | T.R. Talluri*, T.K. Bhattacharya, Yash Pal, R.A. Legha, (Anuradha Bhardwaj was PI upto 12.06.25) | July. 2020 | June, 2025 | |
| 3 | DBT Network Programme on Anthrax Diagnosis and Control in India | R.K. Vaid*, B.C. Bera, K. Shanmugasundaram | Sept., 2021 | July, 2025 | |
| 4 | Optimisation of procedures for non-surgical recovery and bio-banking of Marwari breed horse embryos | T.R. Talluri*, TK Bhattacharya, Yash Pal, RA Legha & RK Dedar | April 2022 | March, 2025 | |
| 5 | Utilization of desert plants for the treatment of skin diseases of Horses | R.K. Dedar*, RA Legha, Yash Pal, TR Talluri | April 2022 | March 2025 | |
| 6 | Translation of Nano based quinapyramine sulphate formulation into product and its evaluation against Trypanosoma evansi in animals | Anju Manuja*, Rajender Kumar and Balvinder Kumar | April, 2022 | Extended upto March., 2026 | |
| 7 | Development of vaccine against animal’s haemoprotozoan parasites for mitigating biotic stress | Sanjay Kumar*, Rajender Kumar & K. Shanmugasundaram | Oct., 2022 | May, 2025 extended upto Nov., 2025 | |
| 8 | Development and evaluation of genetically engineered vaccine candidates for African swine fever, Equine Herpes virus-1 and Equine Influenza (clade 1 & 2)’ | Nitin Virmani*Sanjay Barua, BC Bera & Taruna Anand | June 2022 | May, 2025 extended upto Nov., 2025 | |
| 9 | CRP on Vaccine and Diagnostics: “Development and validation of multiplex assays for laboratory diagnosis of emerging equine herpesviruses (EHV2 & EHV5)” | Nitin Virmani*, BC Bera & Taruna Anand | Jan., 2021 | March 2025 | |
| 10 | CRP on Vaccine and Diagnostics “Development of antigen detection point-of-care diagnostics for haemoprotozoan diseases of equines” | Sanjay Kumar* & Rajender Kumar | Jan.,2021 | Extended upto Dec., 2025 | |
| 11 | CRP on Vaccine and Diagnostics: Development of point of care diagnostics for strangles in equines | Balvinder Kumar*, RK Vaid, Anju Manuja, K Shanmugasundaram & Harisankar Singha | Jan., 2021 | March
2025 |
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| 12 | Developing novel therapeutic strategies for mitigating antimicrobial resistance | Taruna Anand*, Nitin Virmani, B.C. Bera, R.K. Vaid | June, 2022 | May, 2025 | |
| 13. | National Fellow Project:
“Bacteriophage based interventions for therapy and prophylaxis against” Campylobacteriosis, Colibacillosis, Salmonellosis and other diseases as an alternative to antibiotics in poultry. |
Taruna Anand* | Oct., 2022 | Oct., 2027 | |
| 14. | Development of novel semen extender for the enhancement of post thaw semen quality in equines | T.R. Talluri* Yash Pal, RA Legha, RK Dedar, Anuradha Bhardwaj and TK Bhattacharya | Feb., 2023 | Feb., 2025 | |
| 15. | Integrated analysis for the ultra-deep compositional characteristics of donkey colostrum and mature milk | TR Talluri*, Yash Pal, Legha and TK Bhattacharya (Anuradha Bhardwaj was PI upto 12.06.25) | Feb., 2023 | Jan., 2026 | |
| 16. | Development and evaluation of immunotherapy and vaccine constructs against Rhodococcus equi infection to protect foals from pneumonia | H. Singha* and K. Shanmugasundaram | Sept., 2023 | Aug., 2026 | |
| 17 | Histone acetylation/ deacetylation: Potential target for therapeutic intervention and vaccine development | Riyesh T.*, Naveen Kumar | Sept., 2023 | Aug., 2026 | |
| 18. | One-Health approaches to understand the burden and threat of zoonotic tuberculosis, melioidosis and glanders in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana states. | Shanmugasundara K*, Harisankar Singha and Riyesh T | March, 2024 | March, 2027 | |
| 19 | Demonstration of Equine dung management through biomethanation in a pilot-scale anaerobic baffled reactor | R.K. Dedar & M Kutty | Jan., 2025 | Jan., 2028 | |
| 20. | ASEAN-India Collaborative research Project
The anti-haemoprotozoan activity of isolated bioactive molecules from selected medicinal plant extracts against Theileria species and Trypanosoma evansi and elucidation of their mechanisms of action |
Sanjay Kumar* and Shanmugasundaram
Karuppusamy |
June, 2024 | June, 2026 | |
| 21. | Network Project on AnGR : Conservation of Halari Donkey | SC Mehta* M. Kutty & T. K. Bhattacharya | Sept., 2023 | Sept., 2026 | |
| 22. | Recombinant Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) viral-vectored multivalent vaccine to control and combat foot-and-mouth disease in livestock | B.C. Bera*, Nitin Virmani & Taruna Anand | June, 2024 | March, 2026 | |
| 23. | Genome editing platform: Establishment of a herpes virus vector platform and identification of vaccine candidates by gene editing for emerging and exotic diseases of livestock and poultry | Nitin Virmani* BC Bera, Taruna Anand, Balvinder Kumar, Rajender Kumar and H. Singha | June, 2024 | March, 2026 | |
| 24 | NP-GET: Centre of Excellence in the Genome Editing | B.C.Bera*, Nitin Virmani & Taruna Anand | June, 2024 | March, 2026 | |
| 25. | All India Network Project on One Health Approach to zoonotic diseases | Nitin Virmani* and B.C. Bera | June,2024 | June, 2026 | |
| 26. | All India Network Project on Antimicrobial Resistance (AINP-AMR) in Fisheries and Livestock | R. K. Vaid*, Taruna Anand and H S Singha | June, 2018 | March, 2025 |
| 27 | Creation of a national network of existing and upcoming high-risk pathogen laboratories (BSL-3/4) labs across departments and keeping their inter-linkages functional for use during outbreak response across sectors | H. Singha* & Riyesh T | April, 2024 | Renewed yearly basis |
| 28. | AINP on Challenging and Emerging Diseases of Animals (Hemoprotozoan Disease of Livestock). | Rajender Kumar* & Sanjay Kumar | Nov., 2024 | March, 2026 |
