:St John's Medical College Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, South India:

Research - Microbiology

Completed

Sl. No	Title of the Project	Names of Investigators	Funding Agency and Year of Grant	Duration of Project
1	Protein requirement in malnourished South Indian Children	Co-Investigators Dr. Savitha Nagaraj Dr. Priyadarshini	-	2014
2	Discovery of new antibiotics to treat Gram negative infections; particularly Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumanii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus spp.	Dr. Savitha Nagaraj	BugworksResearch,DBT and SJRI	2 Years
3	Evaluation of a novel technology in reduction of air and surface pathogenic microbe contamination and to study its effect on infection prevention in an intensive care unit from a tertiary care centre	Dr. Savitha Nagaraj	Small business innovation Research initiative, BIRAC, DBT	6 Months

Sl. No

Title of the Project

Names of Investigators

Funding Agency and Year of Grant

Duration of Project

Protein requirement in malnourished South Indian Children

Co-Investigators

Dr. Savitha Nagaraj

Dr. Priyadarshini

2014

Discovery of new antibiotics to treat Gram negative infections; particularly Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumanii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus spp.

Dr. Savitha Nagaraj

BugworksResearch,DBT and SJRI

2 Years

Evaluation of a novel technology in reduction of air and surface pathogenic microbe contamination and to study its effect on infection prevention in an intensive care unit from a tertiary care centre

Dr. Savitha Nagaraj

Small business innovation Research initiative, BIRAC, DBT

6 Months

On Going

Sl. No	Title of the Project	Names of Investigators	Funding Agency and Year of Grant	Duration of Project
1	Estimating the inpatient burden and antibiotic resistance pattern of Enteric fever in a tertiary care hospital in South India	Dr. Savitha Nagaraj	Oxford UK	1 year
2	National Surveillance system for Enteric fever in India	Dr. Savitha Nagaraj	CMC Vellore	3 years
3	SCY-078-305: Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of SCY 078 in Patients with Candidiasis, Including Candidemia, Caused by Candida auris	Dr. Jayanthi Savio CI	SCYNEXIS, Inc.	-
4	A comparative study on the performance of conventional culture, high volume culture (HVC) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for the detection of Aspergillus species in the broncho alveolar lavage samples from patients with clinical diagnosis of respiratory fungal infection	Dr.Jayanthi Savio PI	SELF	-
5	Evaluation of A.fumigatus specific IgE level in patients with asthma in a tertiary care centre	Dr.Jayanthi Savio	SELF	-
6	Identification of biomarkers and risk assessment in dengue	Dr. Mary DiasCo PI Dr. Cecil Ross PI	Rajiv Gandhi university of health sciences March 2018	1 year
7	Biomarker signatures for diagnosis of tuberculosis	Dr. Mary DiasCo PI Dr. George D Souza PI	Foundation for Neglected Diseases (FNDR)January 2018	1 year
8	Prevalence survey of Plasmodium Falciparum antimalarial drug resistance markers at sites in India	Dr. Mary DiasPI	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Exon Mobil)	2 years
9	Flavivirusencephalitis in India new approaches in processing the diagnosis and understanding the disease mechanism	Dr. Mary Dias Co I Dr.Chitra PI	Welcome trust DBT-I asyer	March 2016
10	Prevalence survey of Plasmodium Falciparum antimalarial drug resistance markers at sites in India	Dr. Mary DiasPI	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Exon Mobil)	2 years
11	Flavivirusencephalitis in India new approaches in processing the diagnosis and understanding the disease mechanism	Dr. Mary Dias Co I Dr.Chitra PI	Welcome trust DBT-I asyer	March 2016
12	Dengue sequencing project	Dr. Mary Dias PI	NCBS	November 2016
13	Human Immune Profiling Consortium Initiative Distinguishing Features of Immune Signatures of BCG Vaccination at Birth and Revaccination in Young Adulthood.	PI (India): Vyakarnam A. Co-PIs G. D’Souza, Dr. P. Dwarakanath&Dr. M. Dias PI (USA): J. McElrath	DBT- NIH, Indo-US October 2019	2 years
14	Evaluation of a blood-based assay using Flow Cytometry technology for the laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis.	Dr. Mary Dias PI Dr. George D Souza Co PI	BeckMan Coulter India March 2018	2 years