Designation: Director
Mail-id: director.nivedi@icar.org.in | baldev.gulati@icar.org.in
Office: 080 - 23093111 (Ext - 111)
M.V.Sc. (Veterinary Microbiology), CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar
Ph.D. (Veterinary Microbiology), CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar
Post-doctoral Fellowship (Veterinary Virology), University of Minnesota, USA
Fellow, Indian Association of Veterinary Microbiologists, Immunologists and Specialists in Infectious Diseases
Fellow, Indian Society for Veterinary Immunology & Biotechnology
Fellow, Indian Virological Society
Fellow, National Academy of Veterinary Sciences, India
Penn state-DTRA, USA
Risk estimation & prediction and Risk Mapping & Communication of Anthrax using Artificial Intelligence systems" under 'One Health' Approach for Molecular Epidemiology and Risk Assessment for Bacillus anthracis in India (OHAI)
Medical Research Council, UK
"IndiaZooRisk+: Using One Health approaches to understand and co-develop interventions for zoonotic diseases affecting forest communities in India"
National Agricultural Science Fund, ICAR
Epidemiology Studies and development of antiviral therapeutics against coronaviruses
Department of Biotechnology
Validation and translation of the vaccines as well as diagnostic techniques developed in phase-1 of ADMaC
Indian Council of Medical Research
Inter-sectoral Coordination for Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Diseases
Department of Biotechnology
Molecular epidemiology of Japanese encephalitis virus in pigs and mosquitoes in the state of Assam
Science & Engineering Research Board
Development and application of indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serological survey of Japanese encephalitis virus infection in equines
Department of Biotechnology
DBT-NER Centre for Advanced Animal Diagnostics and Services on Animal Health and Diseases (ADSAHD)
Department of Biotechnology
Isolation and characterization of equine mesenchymal stem cells from amniotic fluid
Department of Biotechnology
Isolation and characterization of animal adenoviruses for development of a novel viral vector for vaccine delivery
Pfizer Animal Health-CRP
Studies on prevalence of bacterial (Escherichia coli and Salmonella) and viral (Corona and Rota) causes of calf scours amongst dairy cattle in India
ICAR
Characterization of equine herpesvirus isolates in India and documentation of their genetic diversity
ICAR
Investigations on neuropathogenic and non-neuropathogenic variants of equine herpes virus-1 (EHV-1) and associated latency among equines in India
ICAR
Development of diagnostics for Japanese encephalitis in equines
ICAR
Development of vaccine(s) against equine herpes virus-I infection
ICAR
Studies on high-level drug resistant bacteria in equines for search of sentinel microbes to use in predictive disease modeling and microbes with vector potential
ICAR
Development of sensitive & specific methods for diagnosis of equine rotavirus from diarrheic foals
ICAR
Studies on the improvement of the diagnostics for differentiation between EHV-1 & 4 infections employing molecular techniques
ICAR
Epidemiological studies on emerging and existing diseases of equines
Contributions to scientific knowledge
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Publications
Sharma AK, Prashar P, Bharti OK, Riyesh T, Thakur R, Kumar N, Shanmugasundaram K, Singha H, Bhattacharya TK, Gulati BR, Isloor S, Panda AK, Sharma J, Hara M, Knobel D. 2023. Diagnosis of rabies by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) on post-mortem skin tissue specimens of the nasolabial plate in a rabies suspected cow – A case study. The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science: Accepted.
Kumar N, Barua S, Kumar R, Khandelwal N, Kumar A, Verma A, Singh L, Godara B, Chander Y, Kumar G, Riyesh T, Sharma DK, Pathak A, Kumar S, Dedar RK, Mehta V, Gaur M, Bhardwaj B, Vyas V, Chaudhary S, Yadav V, Bhati A, Kaul R, Bashir A, Andrabi A, Yousuf RW, Koul A, Kachhawaha S, Gurav A, Gautam S, Tiwari HA, Munjal VK, Gupta MK, Kumar R, Gulati BR, Misri J, Kumar A, Mohanty AK, Nandi S, Singh KP, Pal Y, Dutt T, Tripathi BN. Evaluation of the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of a new live-attenuated lumpy skin disease vaccine in India. Virulence. 2023 Dec;14(1):2190647.
Pegu SR, Das PJ, Sonowal J, Sengar GS, Deb R, Yadav AK, Rajkhowa S, Choudhury M, Gulati BR, Gupta VK. 2023. Japanese Encephalitis Virus Genotype III Strains Detection and Genome Sequencing from Indian Pig and Mosquito Vector. Vaccines (Basel) 11(1):150.
Kumar R, Khandelwal N, Chander Y, Nagori H, Verma A, Barua A, Godara B, Pal Y, Gulati BR, Tripathi BN, Barua S, Kumar N. 2022. S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase inhibitor DZNep blocks transcription and translation of SARS-CoV-2 genome with a low tendency to select for drug-resistant viral variants. Antiviral Research: 105232.
Khandelwal N, Chander Y, Kumar R, Nagori H, Verma A, Mittal P, Riyesh T, Kamboj S, Verma SS, Khatreja S, Pal Y, Gulati BR, Tripathi BN, Barua S, Kumar N. 2021. Studies on growth characteristics and cross neutralization of wild type and Delta SARS-CoV-2 from Hisar (India). Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 11: 771524.
Singha H, Shanmugasundaram K, Tripathi BN, Saini S, Khurana SK, Kanani A, Shah N, Mital A, Kanwar P, Bhat, L, Limaye V, Khasa V, Arora R, Gupta S, Sangha S, Sharma H, Agarwal SK, Tapase J, Parnam S, Dube P, Baalasundaram SK, Mandal BN, Virmani N, Gulati BR, Malik P. Serological surveillance and clinical investigation of glanders among indigenous equines in India from 2015 to 2018. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020;00:1–13.
Secretary (Veterinary), Indian Virological Society 2020-23
Life Member, World Society for Virology (WSV), 2018
Founder Member, International Academy of Biosciences (IAB), UK, 2016
Life Member, Society for Biosafety
Life member, Indian Immunological Society (IIS)
Editor, VirusDisease, An official Journal of Indian Virological Society, 2020-23
Life member, Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)
Life member, Indian Virological Society (IVS)
Life member, Indian Association of Veterinary Microbiologists, Immunologists and Specialists in Infectious Diseases (IAVMI)
Life member, Indian Society for Veterinary Immunology and Biotechnology (ISVIB)
Life Member, Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists
Editor, Indian Journal of Microbiology
Our institute is dedicated to advancing veterinary science and improving animal health across India. Through innovative research, collaborative efforts, and scientific excellence, we strive to address emerging challenges in animal health and public health sectors. I am honored to lead a team of dedicated scientists committed to making significant contributions to the field of veterinary epidemiology and disease control.
Dr. Baldev Raj Gulati
Director, ICAR–National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics