Highlights: Department of General Medicine

Research Award

• ICMR Kamla Menon Award
  
• Coelho Memorial Award API
  
• AR Seth Award
  
• Fellow National Academy Med Sc
  
• WHO, Indo US, DBT. ICMR research
  projects
  
• First to describe large scale drug resistance in Kala-azar
  
• Developed for Kala-azar
  
• Treatment - Oral Miltefosine & Diagnosis - Rapid k39 strip test
  

Specialized Tests

• PCR for diagnosis of Leishmaniasis,
  
• Immunological studies FACS-CALIBUR.
  
• Immunological studies using ELISA
  
• In-vitro tissue culture facilities