This advanced centre for fungal infections has been set up with funding from ICMR with an aim to provide services within the state of Karnataka and across its borders including – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana and Puduchery with the following specific objectives.

The centre will function to include state of the art diagnostic services, Education & Training to strengthen expertise across healthcare facilities, research with collaborations and networking and develop a regional culture collection centre.

Objectives:
● Standardizing the new parameters, we will be introducing and as new platforms for the existing parameters with stringent quality control measures.
● Strengthening the existing clinical advisory services team to effectively manage the external referrals for fungal diagnosis and outbreak investigation
● Offering comprehensive diagnostic services with clinical advisory services for fungal infections.
● Undertaking surveillance studies to map out fungal diseases in the region and add to the data of the country through the existing national network.
● Planning and executing research related to –
epidemiology, pathophysiology and diagnosis
antifungal resistance to develop treatment strategies
infection control and antifungal stewardship
● Creating tailored education and training hub for mycology by developing –
Training Modules for Manpower development
Curriculum for PG training
Collaboration with National and international institutes for Doctoral and Post doc programs
● Developing Regional Culture collection centre which will house all the clinical and environmental isolates for collaborative future research at national level
● Collaborating with national and international institutes for developing cost effective, robust diagnostic platforms for fungal diseases of national importance.
● Create public awareness on mycoses.

Contact Information:
Official mail ID: amdrc@stjohns.in
Location of the facility: 4th floor, Robert Koch Bhavan, SJMC

Institution:
St. John's Medical College and Hospital,
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences,
Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, 560034, Karnataka, India.