Manmohan Parida assumed the position with effect from 1 October 2021.
15 Facts About Manmohan Parida
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Manmohan Parida obtained his graduation in Veterinary Science from Odisha Veterinary College as best graduate with three Gold Medals into his credit.
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Manmohan Parida earned his master's degree in Veterinary Virology from prestigious Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar and further obtained his Doctorate Jiwaji University, Gwalior in Microbiology.
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Manmohan Parida was awarded with Monbusho Fellowship from Japanese Govt and pursued Post Doctoral Research Scientist at Institute of Tropical Medicine, WHO reference center for research on arboviruses, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Dr Parida is a virologist with three decades of scientific and techno managerial experience in the field of Medical Virology.
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Manmohan Parida has established National Apex Referral Laboratory for Dengue, Chikungunya, Swine Flu, COVID19 under Infectious Disease Surveillance Programme.
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Manmohan Parida is spearheading the DRDO Biothreat Mitigation Programme and working on establishment Maximum Microbial containment complex facility as a National Biodefence Referral Laboratory in the country for mitigation of future biothreat emergencies.
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Manmohan Parida has established advanced molecular diagnostics based on gene amplification technologies for large number of viruses viz; Dengue, JE, Chikungunya, West Nile, Swine Flu, SARS, COVID19.
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Manmohan Parida has the distinction introducing LAMP technology in India.
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Manmohan Parida has developed RT-LAMP tests for high risk biothreat viral agents viz, Ebola, Smallpox, CCHF, KFD, Nipah viruses through synthetic gene based approach.
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Manmohan Parida was member of various Inter-ministerial Task forces, Technical and Joint working group committees for formulation of policy proposal and guidelines.
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Manmohan Parida has 3 international patents and 10 national patents granted to his credit.
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Manmohan Parida's research focus is in the fields of molecular epidemiology of viral infections, epidemics and public health.
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Manmohan Parida's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 113 of them.
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Manmohan Parida holds a patent, Oligonucleotides and process for detection of swine flu virus, a process he co-developed with his colleagues at DRDE.