7^th Asia Pacific STD and Infectious Diseases Congress

Biography

Dr. Prati Pal Singh is a renounced educationalist and scientist at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S. A. S Nagar, India. He pursued his Doctoral studies in Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow and got the degree from Kanpur University and postdoctoral research work at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio and at a very prestigious institution, The Stanford University, Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA. He was a visiting fellow at the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Singh is a renowned molecular biologist, immunologist and neuroimmunopharmacologist and has made very important contributions to control and treatment of parasitic and microbial diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and trichomoniasis. He has 202 publications including one in Nature Medicine, and 9 patents including one US patent. He also participates in journal activities. Prof. Singh was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India for his work on “biotechnology, parasitology and neuroimmunomodulation”, and Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India and he has been awarded the prestigious Tulasbai Somani Educational Trust Award (1992) of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences.

Research Interest

Parasitic and microbial infections (mainly tuberculosis, malaria, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and trichmoniasis) Immunology, autophagy, allergy, vaccination and pathogenesis, bioimmunotherapy and new drug discovery neuroimmunomodulation, biotechnology, inflammation, immune-toxicology, and science administration, and communication/editing.