Dr. Amirul I. Mallick has received “Scientific High-Level Visiting Fellowships (SSHN programme-2024)” for a research visit to the University of Saint-Etienne, France.

This initiative from the French Institute in India (IFI) / Embassy of France aims to nurture and strengthen Franco-Indian research networks by providing funding to Indian faculty and researchers from eminent Indian Higher Education and Research Institutions for short research trips to French labs under the framework of an existing research collaboration.

Dr. Amirul I. Mallick, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, has won India-UK partnership grant to address farmed animal diseases and health (FADH). In this collaborative research, Dr. Mallick’s team will investigate the role of bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) in developing a new generation vaccine against Campylobacter jejuni. The joint funders for this grant are the Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK Research and Innovation.

DBS PhD student Ms. Aparna Varma working with Dr. Amirul Islam Mallick has received the “Best Oral presentation Award-VIROCON 2023″ for her work titled “Neutralisation of SARS-CoV-2 Spike-pseudotyped lentivirus by polyclonal antibody raised against RBD variants” in VIROCON-2023, held at ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu (1st to 3rd December – 2023).