Amita Aggarwal, born in 1960, earned her medical degree of MBBS as well as a post-graduate degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and secured the degree of DM in Clinical Immunology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
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Amita Aggarwal's career started at SGPGI as a member of faculty in 1996 and she holds the position of a Professor and Head at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology.
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Amita Aggarwal is known for her research in the field of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, especially the pathogenesis of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
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Amita Aggarwal described that the phenotype of JIA in Indian patients is different from that elsewhere and that enthesitis-related arthritis is the most common.
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Amita Aggarwal has contributed significantly to understanding the pathogenesis of ERA, such as the role of macrophages and T cells, various cytokines and gut microbiome.
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Amita Aggarwal is currently coordinating a multi-institutional network project on SLE to understand the diversity of SLE across India.
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Amita Aggarwal has contributed immensely to developing manpower for Rheumatology by training nearly 100 students who are now spread across India.
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Amita Aggarwal has been holding a National Workshop on Autoantibodies to train Indian physicians in the laboratory diagnostics of autoimmune diseases.
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Amita Aggarwal is one of the resource persons for PID facilities in India.
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Amita Aggarwal has held the office of the President of the Indian Rheumatology Association.
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Amita Aggarwal was the national coordinator for India of the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization.
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Amita Aggarwal received the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1998, for her studies in auto-immune rheumatic diseases and the ICMR honoured her again in 2001 with the Dr Kamala Menon Award.