Dr.
Aashish Choudhary
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Aashish, an alumnus of AIIMS Delhi, completed his MD in Microbiology from the institute in the year 2007. He is currently in-charge of the virology laboratory of the department.
His areas of interest include congenital viral infections (HCMV), viral hepatitis (HBV, HCV, HEV, HAV, etc.), infections in SOT/HSCT recipients (HCMV, EBV, etc.), viral STI’s (HPV, Human adenoviruses, HSV 1&2, etc.), viral haemorrhagic fevers (Dengue fever), cell culture, and molecular virology.
Academic Qualifications
- AAHIVM Expert- American Association of HIV Medicine, USA, 2021
- CIC- Certification Board of Infection Control & Epidemiology, USA, 2020
- FCCM- Canadian College of Microbiologists, Vancouver; Canada, 2019
- D (ABMM) - American College of Microbiology, Washington; USA, 2018
| Year | Award | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Meghna Baweja Award for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, IAMM Delhi | Detection and Genotyping of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) from Neonates with Congenital infection. |
| 2009 | Best Poster Award- IAMM Delhi | Screening for Cryptosporidium muris infection in fecal smears from patients with by modified acid-fast staining and micrometry. |
| 2009 | Best Poster Award- IAMM Delhi | Morphological variations in intestinal coccidian oocysts by modified Kinyoun acid-fast staining of archived fecal smears. |
| 2012 | Sanjay Sardana Memorial Award for Immunodiagnostic techniques, IAMM | Significance of anti-HCV signal-to-cutoff ratio (S/Co) in predicting HCV viremia in patients with suspected HCV infection. |
| 2015 | IAMM prize for Best Published Paper in Virology (Ind. J Med.Microbiol.) | Comparison of Conventional, Immunological and Molecular techniques for the diagnosis of Congenital HCMV infection. |
Publications/Abstracts in indexed journals - 61
Book Chapters - 4
