16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Institute of advanced research
• Country: India (IN)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: to develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Food
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  Antimicrobial resistance Diarrheal pathogens Molecular epidemiology

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am Dr. Neha Rajpara, assistant professor at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India since 2022. I finished my Ph.D. in 2019. The main topic of my thesis was the role of mobile genetic elements imparting drug resistance in diarrheal pathogens. Then I joined as a research associate in the One health Poultry hub project at Gujarat Biotechnology Reserach Centre, Gandhinagar, India. Here, I worked on antimicrobial resistance of poultry pathogens. I also worked on survillence of SARS-CoV-2 and diagnostic kit development.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  I am interested in collaborating on a project related to AMR surveillance.

Dr. Neha Rajpara

• Organisation: Institute of advanced research
• Position: Assistant professor
• E-mail: neha.rajpara@iar.ac.in