Diagnosis of Mycobacterium

Dr. Amit Singh is an assistant professor of Microbiology at Central University of Punjab, India. He has completed his MS degree from Jiwaji University Gwalior, India, and doctoral degree in Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Medicine from AIIMS, New Delhi, India. He did post-doctoral research in the field of Virology and Mycobacteriology at AIIMS, New Delhi. After the completion of post-doctoral training, he joined as senior resident in the Department of Microbiology at AIIMS, Bhopal. After SRship he again joined AIIMS, New Delhi, as a senior scientist where he was actively involved in the molecular diagnosis, providing training and quality control of COVID-19 throughout pandemics. He is working in the field of diagnosis of infectious disease since last 14 years and is an active clinical and molecular microbiologist and mycobacteriologist. His research focuses on the exploration of drug resistance mechanism of M. tuberculosis and ESKAPE pathogens through omics approaches. He is also actively involved in the development of point-of-care and molecular diagnostics for infectious disease. His contribution to this field includes more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters of international repute. He is an academic editor, guest editor, editorial board members, and reviewers of various international and national journals. Also member of various national and international societies.

Dr. Divakar Sharma has completed his MS degree in Biotechnology from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India, and a PhD degree in Biotechnology from the Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India, as well as ICMR-National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India. He has completed two-post doctoral fellowships research at ICMR-National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India (2015-2017) and Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (2017-2019). After completion of the post-doctoral