Dr.
Akanksha
Female
Affiliation
Associate Professor
Department of
Physiology
Contact
Email :
drakanksha@aiims.edu
Area of Interest:
- Intra-operative Neurophysiological Monitoring
- Cardiovascular and Autonomic Neurophysiology
Dr.
Nasreen Akhtar
Female
MD, PhD, PGDCH
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Physiology
Contact
Email :
drnasreenakhtar@aiims.edu
Phone :
26594812
Area of Interest:
Neurophysiology of Sleep, Sleep medicine and medical Education.
Dr.
Ruchi Rathore
Female
Affiliation
Assistant Professor
Department of
Pathology
Contact
Email :
ruchirathore13@gmail.com
Phone :
011-26594169
09868246815
Office Address
1087, Department of Pathology, First Floor, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi, 110029
Speciality of work
Breast Pathology, Gynecological Pathology
Areas of teaching
Qualifications
MD (Pathology)
Books and Chapters
Mathur S, Rathore R. (2020) The Breast. In: Eds. Singh MK, Kumar V. Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease: Vol II, 10e - South Asia Edition, pgs. 1343.
- Novel Molecular Subtypes of Uterine sarcoma
- Ruchi Rathore*, Sonal Sharma, Sarla Agarwal. Malignant transformation in mature cystic teratoma of the ovary: a retrospective study of eight cases and review of literature. June 2018 Menopausal Review 17(2):63-68 DOI:10.5114/pm.2018.77304
- Ruchi Rathore*, Sonal Sharma, Deepshikha Arora. Spectrum of Childhood and Adolescent Ovarian Tumors in India: 25 Years Experience at a Single Institution. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2016 Dec 15; 4(4): 551-555.
- Ruchi Rathore*, Sonal Sharma, Sarla Agarwal. Clinicopathological Evaluation Of 223 Cases Of Mature Cystic Teratoma, Ovary: 25-Year Experience In A Single Tertiary Care Centre In India. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2017 Apr, Vol-11(4): EC11-EC14
- Ruchi Rathore, Deepshikha Arora, Sarla Agarwal, Sonal Sharma*. Correlation of FOXL2 with Inhibin and Calretinin in the Diagnosis of Ovarian Sex Cord Stromal Tumors. Turkish Journal Of Pathology. doi: 10.5146/tjpath.2016.01382
Dr.
Aruna Nambirajan
Female
Affiliation
Assistant Professor
Department of
Pathology
Contact
Email :
arunanambirajan@aiims.edu
Phone :
09013844271
Office Address
3001, Third Floor, Convergence Block, AIIMS, New Delhi, 110029
Speciality of work
Thoracic Pathology, Cytopathology
Areas of teaching
Qualifications
MD (Pathology), DNB
Areas of academic and research interest
Lung cancer, Molecular diagnostics, Pulmonary cytology, Undergraduate teaching
Books and Chapters
- Nambirajan A., Jain D. (2021) Immunohistochemical Detection of p40 Expression in Lung Cancer Clinical Samples. In: Santiago-Cardona P.G. (eds) Lung Cancer. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2279. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1278-1_2
- Nambirajan A, Singh V, Jain D. Molecular pathology of thymic epithelial tumors. In: Atlas of Thymic Pathology; Eds: Jain D, Bishop JA, Wick MR. Springer 2020: pgs. 169-172
- Nambirajan A. (2020) Infectious diseases. In: Eds. Singh MK, Kumar V. Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease: Vol II, 10e - South Asia Edition, pgs. 1332-1333
- Nambirajan A., Sharma A., Sharma M.C. (2021) Pathology and Molecular Pathology of Ependymoma. In: Mallick S., Giridhar P., Rath G.K. (eds) Evidence based practice in Neuro-oncology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2659-3_4
- Nambirajan A., Singh J., Suri V. (2021) Pathology and Molecular Pathology of Meningioma. In: Mallick S., Giridhar P., Rath G.K. (eds) Evidence based practice in Neuro-oncology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2659-3_5
- Giridhar P., Nambirajan A., Benson R. (2021) Ependymoma. In: Mallick S., Giridhar P., Rath G.K. (eds) Evidence based practice in Neuro-oncology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2659-3_24
- Suri V, Nambirajan A, Sharma MC, Sarkar C. Surgical Pathology of intractable epilepsy. In. Progress in clinical neurosciences, Volume 30; Eds: Muthukumar N and Goyal V, Thieme Delhi, 2016: pgs 13-32.
- Nambirajan A, Sharma MC. Ependymal tumors. In. Essentials of Diagnostic Surgical Neuropathology; Eds: Sarkar C, Santosh V, Chacko G. Thieme Delhi 2018: pgs 41-49.
Notable Awards and Honors
- Dr. N C Nayak Talented Young Pathologist Award, Delhi chapter IAPM, 2022
- AIIMS Oncology Research Award, Clinical Sciences, 3rd prize, 2021 – co-author in winning publication
- AIIMS Oncology Research Award, Clinical Sciences, 2nd place, 2020 – co-author in winning publication
- Developing Nations Award – Winning Finalist, World Conference on Lung Cancer, Worldwide Virtual Event, 2021
- AIIMS Oncology Award (Basic Research Category) 1st place, 2020 – first author in winning publication
- AIIMS Oncology Award (Basic Research Category) 2nd place, 2019 – co-author in winning publication
- Young Investigator Travel award, International Congress of Neuropathology, Japan, 2018
- Certificate of Excellence (Basic research Category), AIIMS foundation day, 2018- first author in winning publication
- Colonel DB Nayar Memorial Award for best paper in the field of molecular cytopathology, AC of IAC, Shillong, 2017
- ISNO (Indian Society of Neuro-oncology) President’s Annual award for best student in Clinical Neuro-Oncology, ISNOCON, Hyderabad, 2016
- Dr V R Khanolkar Award for best published work, APCON, 2014
- DNB Pathology (All India Topper, NBE President’s Gold Medal), 2014
- MD Pathology (Best Outgoing Junior Resident, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr V Ramalingaswamy Gold Medal), 2013
- MBBS (Best Outgoing MBBS student, Chengelpet Govt. Medical College, Tamilnadu), 2010
- Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in non-small cell lung carcinoma (AIIMS funded – ongoing)
- Corticotrope pituitary adenomas (ICMR funded – ongoing)
- Spinal ependymomas (AIIMS funded – ongoing)
- Nambirajan A, Rana D, Samant K, Prabakaran A, Malik P, Jain D. Multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization testing for anaplastic lymphoma kinase and c-ros oncogene 1 gene rearrangements on cytology smears in lung adenocarcinomas: comparative study with formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections . J Am Soc Cytopathol . 2022 Jan 13:S2213-2945(22)00001-1.
- Mahajan S, Nambirajan A, Gupta I, Gupta P, Gupta N, Jain D. Malignant pleural effusion cell blocks are reliable resources for PD-L1 analysis in advanced lung adenocarcinomas: a concordance study with matched histology samples. J Am Soc Cytopathol . 2022 Accepted April 14.
- Jain D, Nambirajan A, Chen G, Geisinger K, Hiroshima K, Layfield L, Minami Y, Moreira AL, Motoi N, Papotti M, Rekhtman N, Russell PA, Prince SS, Schmitt F, Yatabe Y, Eppenberger-Castori S, Bubendorf L; IASLC Pathology Committee. Non-small cell lung carcinoma subtyping in conventional cytology: Results of the IASLC Cytology Working Group survey to determine specific cytomorphological criteria for adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. J Thorac Oncol . 2022:S1556-0864(22)00145-9.
- Gheware A, Ray A, Rana D, Bajpai P, Nambirajan A, Arulselvi S, Mathur P, Trikha A, Arava S, Das P, Mridha AR, Singh G, Soneja M, Nischal N, Lalwani S, Wig N, Sarkar C, Jain D. ACE2 protein expression in lung tissues of severe COVID-19 infection. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 8;12(1):4058.
- Ray A, Jain D, Goel A, Agarwal S, Swaroop S, Das P, Arava SK, Mridha AR, Nambirajan A, Singh G, Arulselvi S, Mathur P, Kumar S, Sahni S, Nehra J, Nazneen, Bm M, Rastogi N, Mahato S, Gupta C, Bharadhan S, Dhital G, Goel P, Pandey P, Kn S, Chaudhary S, Keri VC, Chauhan VS, Mahishi N, Shahi A, R R, Gupta BK, Aggarwal R, Soni KD, Nischal N, Soneja M, Lalwani S, Sarkar C, Guleria R, Wig N, Trikha A. Clinico-pathological features in fatal COVID-19 infection: a preliminary experience of a tertiary care center in North India using postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling. Expert Rev Respir Med . 2021 Jul 24:1-9. doi: 10.1080/17476348.2021.1951708.
- Satapathy S, Singh V, Nambirajan A, Malik PS, Tanwar P, Mehta A, Suryavanshi M, Thulkar S, Mohan A, Jain D. EGFR mutation testing on plasma and urine samples: A pilot study evaluating the value of liquid biopsy in lung cancer diagnosis and management . Curr Probl Cancer . 2021 Mar 3:100722. doi: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2021.100722. Epub ahead of print.
- Nambirajan A, Singh V, Bhardwaj N, Mittal S, Kumar S, Jain D. SMARCA4/BRG1-deficient non-small cell lung carcinomas: a case series and review of the literature. Arch Pathol Lab Med . 2021;145:90-98.
- Singh V, Nambirajan A, Malik PS, Kaur K, Mohan A, Jain D. EGFR mutation testing in cytology smears of advanced non-small cell lung carcinomas: practical applications in low resource laboratories. Cytopathology. 2021; 32:287-289.
- Singh V, Nambirajan A, Malik PS, Thulkar S, Pandey RM, Luthra K, Arava S, Ray R, Mohan A, Jain D. Spectrum of uncommon and compound epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in non-small cell lung carcinomas with treatment response and outcome analysis: a study from India. Lung Cancer . 2020;149:53-60.
- Nakra T, Nambirajan A, Guleria P, Phulware R, Jain D. Insulinoma-associated protein 1 is a robust nuclear immunostain for the diagnosis of small cell lung carcinoma in cytology smears. Cancer Cytopathol. 2019;127:539-548.
Dr.
KH REETA
Female
MBBS, MD
Affiliation
Department of Pharmacology
Department of
Pharmacology
Contact
Email :
drkhreeta@aiims.edu
reetakh@gmail.com
Phone :
9711204141
011-26593247
Office Address
Room: 4029
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029
- AIIMS Excellence Research Award 2022 for outstanding publication under the category Basic Research, awarded in 2024.
- Fellow, Indian Pharmacological Society (FIPS) 2023.
- Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India (FAMS)(F-1080-2022).
- Dr Vinod Kumar Bhargava Award of the National Academy of Medical Sciences for best published research work in the field of Clinical Pharmacology/Drug Development in India, 2017.
- AIIMS Excellence Research Award for outstanding publication under the category Basic Research, 2016.
- Shakuntala Amir Chand Award of ICMRfor the best published research work in the field of biomedical science including clinical research, awarded in the year 2013.
- Member, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India (2011).
- CL Malhotra Prize, for the best research paper in Pharmacology, presented by the Association of Physiologists & Pharmacologists of India (2006).
- Best Oral Paper Presented, 3rd North Zone Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society, New Delhi, presented by the Indian Pharmacological Society (2005).
- Ranked First, Research Methodology and Biostatistics (1997)
- Stood First, all Professional MBBS Examinations
- Honors and Topped in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Community Medicine, Otolaryngology, Pharmacology, Anatomy and Biochemistry.
- Topped in Ophthalmology, Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Physiology.
- Kamala Devi Patni Charitable Gold Medal for the Best Graduate of the Institute (1994): recognition for excellence in Clinical Skills and Overall Achievements.
- University Gold Medalsin Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pharmacology and for standing First in Final MBBS.
- Certificate and Cash Awardfor scoring above 70% in Internal Medicine.
- Dashmesh Endowment Prize from the Association of Otolaryngologists of Indiafor Honors in Otolaryngology.
RESEARCH INTERESTS/ ACTIVE RESEARCH AREAS
- Neuropharmacology, Metabolic Disease, Clinical Pharmacology
- Sharma H, Reeta KH, Sharma U, Suri V, Singh S. AMPA receptor modulation through sequential treatment with perampanel and aniracetam mitigates post-stroke damage in experimental model of ischemic stroke.Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 2023; 396(12):3529-3545.
- Mishra A, Sarangi SC, Maiti R, Sood M, Reeta KH. Effect of add-on alpha lipoic acid on psychopathology in patients with treatment resistant schizophrenia: A pilot randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2022:1-11. doi: 10.1007/s00213-022-06225-2.
- Joshi B, Singh D, Wasan H, Sharma U, Reeta KH. Tideglusib ameliorates ischemia/reperfusion damage by inhibiting GSK-3β and apoptosis in rat model of ischemic stroke.J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2022;31(4):106349.
- Mishra A, Sarangi SC, Maiti R, Sood M, Reeta KH. Efficacy and safety of adjunctive serotonin-dopamine activity modulators in major depression: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. J Clin Pharmacol. 2022;62(6):721-732.
- Wasan H, Singh D, Joshi B, Sharma U, Dinda AK, Reeta KH.Post stroke safinamide treatment attenuates neurological damage by modulating autophagy and apoptosis in experimental model of stroke in rats. Mol Neurobiol. 2021.58(12):6121-6135. doi: 10.1007/s12035-021-02523-6.
- Verma V, Singh D, Reeta KH.Sinapic acid alleviates oxidative stress and neuro-inflammatory changes in sporadic model of Alzheimer's disease in rats.Brain Sci. 2020;10(12):E923.
- Meenu M, Reeta KH, Dinda A K, Kottarath SK, Gupta YK. Evaluation of sodium valproate loaded nanoparticles in acute and chronic pentylenetetrazole induced seizure models. Epilepsy Res 2019; 158: 106219.
- Singh D, Reeta KH, Sharma U, Jagannathan NR, Dinda AK, Gupta YK. Neuro-protective effect of monomethyl fumarate on ischemia reperfusion injury in rats: Role of Nrf2/HO1 pathway in peri-infarct region.Neurochem Int. 2019;126:96-108.
- Reeta KH, Singh D, Gupta YK. Chronic treatment with taurine after intracerebroventricular streptozotocin injection improves cognitive dysfunction in rats by modulating oxidative stress, cholinergic functions and neuroinflammation. Neurochem Int 2017; 108: 146-156.
- Prabhakar P, Reeta KH, Maulik SK, Dinda AK, Gupta YK. Protective effect of thymoquinone against high fructose diet-induced metabolic syndrome in rats. Eur J Nutr 2015; 54:1117-1127.
Dr.
Kavneet Kaur
Female
Affiliation
Assistant Professor
Department of
Pathology
Contact
Email :
doc.kavzz@gmail.com
Phone :
011-26593227
Office Address
Room no. 3004, third floor, Convergence Block, Department of Pathology
Speciality of work
Head and neck pathology, Neuropathology
Areas of teaching
Qualifications
MD (Pathology)
Areas of academic and research interest
Head and neck cancer, non-neoplastic diseases of head and neck
Books and Chapters
- Kavneet Kaur, Aanchal Kakkar, Chitra Sarkar. Embryonal tumors. In: Chitra Sarkar, Vani Santosh, Geeta Chacko (eds). Essentials of Diagnostic Neuropathology. Thieme 2017
- Suvendu Purkait, Kavneet Kaur, Vaishali Suri. Glial and glioneuronal tumors. In: Chitra Sarkar, Vani Santosh, Geeta Chacko (eds). Essentials of Diagnostic Neuropathology. Thieme 2017
- Kavneet Kaur, Chitra Sarkar. Pathology and Molecular Biology of Medulloblastoma. In: Mallick S., Giridhar P., Rath G.K. (eds) Evidence based practice in Neuro-oncology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2659-3_5
- Kavneet Kaur. Neoplasia (South Asia content). In: Singh MK, Kumar V (eds). Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease: South Asia Edition, 10th ed. Elsevier, 2020
Notable Awards and Honors
- Shri Mohan Lal Wig Medal for best clinical research in AIIMS, 2015
- Young Scientist’s award at Asian Society for Neuro Oncology (ASNO) held at Osaka, Japan, 2017
- Smt Kunti Devi Mehrotra Award for best published paper in Annual conference of IAPM, 2016
- VR Khanolkar Award for best published paper in Annual conference of IAPM, 2018
- Herbert Krausse Award for Best paper in Neuro Oncology at the 66th Annual Conference of Neurological Society of India (NSICON), 2017
- V. Ramalingaswami Award for best oral presentation at Annual conference of IAPM-Delhi Chapter, 2016
- Mucormycosis in COVID-19 (AIIMS funded – ongoing)
- Kaur K, Kakkar A, Kumar A, Mallick S, Julka PK, Gupta D, Suri A, Suri V, Sharma MC, Sarkar C. Integrating molecular subclassification of medulloblastomas into routine clinical practice: a simplified approach. Brain Pathol. 2016;26:334-343.
- Kaur K, Kakkar A, Kumar A, Purkait S, Mallick S, Suri V, Sharma MC, Julka PK, Gupta D, Suri A, Sarkar C. Clinicopathological characteristics, molecular subgrouping, and expression of miR-379/miR-656 cluster (C14MC) in adult medulloblastomas. J Neurooncol. 2016;130:423-430.
- Kaur K, Jha P, Pathak P, Suri V, Sharma MC, Garg A, Suri A, Sarkar C. Approach to molecular subgrouping of medulloblastomas: Comparison of NanoString nCounter assay versus combination of immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in-situ hybridization in resource constrained centres. J Neurooncol. 2019;143:393-403.
- Kaur K, Rajeshwari M, Gurung N, et al. Uterine tumor resembling ovarian sex cord tumor: A series of six cases displaying varied histopathological patterns and clinical profiles. Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2020;63(Supplement):S81–S86.
- Kakkar A, Nambirajan A, Kaur K, Kumar A, Mallick S, Suri V, Sarkar C, Kale SS, Garg A, Sharma MC. ATRX loss in glioneuronal tumors with neuropil-like islands indicates similarity to diffuse astrocytic tumors. J Neurooncol. 2016 Oct;130(1):63-68.
- Vallonthaiel AG, Jain D, Singh V, Kaur K, Madan K, Kumar V, Iyer VK, Sharma MC. c-Myb Overexpression in Cytology Smears of Tracheobronchial and Pulmonary Adenoid Cystic Carcinomas. Acta Cytol. 2017;61(1):77-83.
- Pal J, Patil V, Kumar A, Kaur K, Sarkar C, Somasundaram K. Loss-of-function mutations in Calcitonin receptor (CALCR) identify highly aggressive glioblastoma with poor outcome. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Mar 15;24(6):1448-1458.
- Kakkar A, Kaur K, Verma A. Pediatric mediastinal germ cell tumors. Mediastinum 2019;3:30.
- Nambirajan A, Kaur H, Jangra K, Kaur K, Madan K, Mathur SR, Iyer VK, Jain D. Adenocarcinoma predominant pattern subtyping and nuclear grading in cytology – Is there a role in prognostication of advanced pulmonary adenocarcinomas? Cytopathology 2018; 29: 163-171.
- Jha P, Manjunath N, Singh J, Mani K, Garg A, Kaur K, Sharma MC, Raheja A, Suri A, Sarkar C, Suri V. Analysis of PD-L1 expression and T cell infiltration in different molecular subgroups of diffuse midline gliomas. Neuropathology. 2019 Dec;39(6):413-424.
Dr.
Dinu S Chandran
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Physiology
Contact
Email :
dinu.chandran@aiims.edu
Area of Interest:
Autonomic and Cardiovascular Functions
Dr.
Prashant T Tayade
Male
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Physiology
Contact
Email :
dr.prashanttayade@aiims.edu
dr.prashanttayade@gmail.com
Area of Interest:
Stress and Cognitive Electro-imaging
Dr.
Simran Kaur
Female
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Physiology
Contact
Email :
simranaiims@outlook.com
Phone :
011-26593559
Area of Interest:
Stress and cognition, medical education
Dr.
Renu Bhatia
Female
MBBS , MD
Affiliation
Additional Professor
Department of
Physiology
Contact
Email :
renrose06@yahoo.com
Phone :
01126596440
Area of Interest:
Neurophysiology
