Achievements

Awards & Recognitions

Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Memorial Prize for the Biennium 1986-87 from ICAR, New Delhi
Hari Om Ashram Trust 1980, Award from ICAR, New Delhi
ICAR Team Award 1983 from ICAR, New Delhi
Hari Om Ashram Trust 1985, Award from ICAR, New Delhi
ICAR National Professor: One (1994-2001)
ICAR National Fellows: 3 (1980-1986; 1983-1993; & 1984-1994)
Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship, U. K. from Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, U.K. for PhD degree.
Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, U.K. from Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, U.K. for PDF
Scholarship/ Fellowship from France, Switzerland, USSR governments for PhD degree
Fellow Award,(1996, 2012-13) of National Academy of Veterinary Science (India)
Fellow Award, (2002) National Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Fellow Award 2010-11 of Society for Applied Biotechnology of India
Best Teacher Award 2004-05 from (ICAR sponsored) CCS Haryana Agric. University, Hisar
The Regional Research Centre on FMD, Hisar was adjudged as the “Best Regional Centre” of ICAR-Project Directorate on FMD Amongst all the Regional Centres, Continuously for Four Years during Annual Meetings 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14.
National level Young Scientist Award by Association of Microbiologists of India
Silver Jubilee Gold Medal for Women for best Doctoral Thesis in CCS HAU, Hisar
V. D. Kashyap Memorial Gold Medal for best Ph.D. Research worker in CCS HAU, Hisar
Manju Mutreja Memorial Gold Medal for best Ph.D. research work in CCS HAU, Hisar
V. Bhat Memorial Award for best research paper published in Indian Journal of Microbiology
"Best Poster Award" Awarded during Annual Conference of IAVMI held at DUVASU, Mathura (November 2014)
Rajender Pal Gold medal for Best Thesis at Master’s level 2004
P. Madhusudan Gold Medal Award 2009 from Indian Assoc. for Advancement of Veterinary Research
"Young Women Scientist award" of Society for Applied Biotechnology of India.
Dr R. N. Srivastava Gold Medal for Best Thesis in MVSc (2013-14).
Member, Editorial Board of the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine for 2009- 2011 published by Elseviers (Singapore) Pvt. Ltd. (online e-publication);
Member, Editorial Board of Advances in Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Editor, "Research & Reviews-Journal of Immunology"- International E-journal [http://www.stmjournals.com/RRJOI/journal-of-immunology.html]
Editor, IAVMI journal
Member, Editorial Board, The Haryana Veterinarian
Many positions in the local chapter and Central Executives of Scientific Societies
Best Oral Presentation Award awarded to Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta in 37th Annual Convention of Indian Society of Veterinary Medicine held at RAJUVAS, Bikaner from Feb. 1-3, 2019
Naresh Kumar Kakker honored for delivering Invited talk on “Foot-and-Mouth Disease in India” in “Brainstorming Workshop on Foot-and-Mouth Disease” at ICAR- CIRB, Hisar in September, 2019
Certificate of Appreciation awarded to Regional Research Center on FMD, Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology, LUVAS, Hisar. ICAR-Directorate of FMD awarded "A" grade to RRC Hisar for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to FMD sero-surveillance and sero-monitoring in the state of Haryana for the year 2020.
First Prize awarded to Dr. Swati Dahiya for Oral Presentation during one of the technical session of XXXIV Annual Convention of IAVMI organized by LUVAS, Hisar, Haryana from May 27-28, 2022.
First Prize awarded to Dr. Anita Dalal for Oral Presentation during one of the technical session of XXXIV Annual Convention of IAVMI organized by LUVAS, Hisar, Haryana from May 27-28, 2022.
Second and Third Prize awarded to Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta for Oral Presentation during one of the technical session of XXXIV Annual Convention of IAVMI organized by LUVAS, Hisar, Haryana from May 27-28, 2022.
Rajesh got the best paper award (oral presentation) in XXXV^thNational Conference of IAVMI organized by the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, CSK,HPKV, Palampur (HP) from April 07-08, 2023.
A software programme entitled “LUVAS FMD E-Loss Calculator” developed by the Scientists of the Dept. of Vety. Microbiology, LUVAS (Authors: Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Neelam Rani and Dr. N. K. Kakker) has been awarded the copyright registration (SW-18808/2024) by the Intellectual Property, Govt. of India.

Teaching Activity

Teaching of various Diploma (DVLT), UG (BVSc & AH) and PG (MVSc and PhD) courses

Program	No. of courses offered
BVSc & AH	01
Diploma courses	04
PG (MVSc& PhD)	22

Include only those courses for which students registered.

Research Activities:
For Period 2023-24:

Ongoing External Funded Research Projects: Six

Sr. No.	Title of the project	LUVAS Scheme No	Funding agency	Name of PI	Name of Co-PI
1.	Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme on FMD “Foot-and-Mouth Disease - Hisar Centre”	5539(PFMS)-C(b)-VMI-06-ICAR	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr. Swati Dahiya	Dr. Anshul Lather
2.	Production and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus specific Nanobodies for Application as Diagnostic Reagents	5056-C(g)-VMI-06-OA(HSCSIT)	HSCSIT, Haryana	Dr. Swati Dahiya	Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anshul Lather
3.	Seromonitoring of FMD+HS combined vaccination in livestock population of Haryana	5083-C(g)-VMI-08-OA(HLDB)	HLDB	Dr. Rajesh	Dr. Swati Dahiya and Dr. Akhil K. Gupta
4.	Comparative Studies on Post-vaccinal Humoral Immune Response in FMD+HS combined, FMD alone and HS alone Vaccinated Buffalo Calves at SCBP, Sector-II, Sirsa Road, Hisar	NA	GoI/ ICAR	Dr. Rajesh and Dr. S. S. Juneja	Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Akhil K. Gupta, and Dr. S. Saravanan
5.	Production and applications of bovine interleukin-17 and anti IL-17 monoclonal antibodies	5531-C(b)-Micro-08(ES)-ICAR	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr. S. K. Kadian	Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anita Dalal
6.	Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in Veterinary Microbiology	5003-C(b)-VBH-14-ICAR	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr. Rajesh	NA

State Plan & Non-Plan Research Schemes

Sr. No.	Title of the project	LUVAS Scheme No
1.	Studies on Infection and Immunity in relation to Foot and Mouth disease virus and Haemorrhagic Septicaemia	138-C(a)-VMI-1-Dev. Work

Ongoing Institutional Projects:

Sr. No.

Title of the project

LUVAS Scheme No

Name of PI

Name of Co-PI

Development of Real-time PCR assay for detection of Porcine Rotavirus

518/AIP/VMI/Dev. Work

Dr. Sanjeevna Kumari

1. Dr. Rajesh, Dr. Parveen Kumar, Vety. Microbiology

2. Dr. Pawan Kumar, Animal Biotechnology

Expression and characterization of scFv clones selected against FMD serotype “O” from bovine scFv-phage display library

527/AIP/VMI/02/Dev. Work

Dr. Akhil Kumar Gupta

Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Anshul Lather, Dr. Anita Dalal, Vety. Microbiology

Research Projects completed during the year 2023-2024

Sr. No.	Title of the project	LUVAS Scheme No	Funding agency	Funding agency scheme No. (if any)	Name of PI	Name of Co-PI
1.	Production and applications of bovine interleukin-17 and anti IL-17 monoclonal antibodies	5531-C(b)-Micro-08(ES)- ICAR	ICAR	NA	Dr. S. K. Kadian	Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anita Dalal
2.	Comparative Studies on Post-vaccinal Humoral Immune Response in FMD+HS combined, FMD alone and HS alone Vaccinated Buffalo Calves at SCBP, Sector-II, Sirsa Road, Hisar	------	GoI/ ICAR	-------	Dr. Rajesh and Dr. S. S. Juneja	Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. S. Saravanan

ii For the period 2024-25:

Ongoing External Funded Research Projects: Six

Sr. No.	Title of the project	LUVAS Scheme No	Funding agency	Name of PI	Name of Co-PI
1.	Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme on FMD “Foot-and-Mouth Disease - Hisar Centre”	5539(PFMS)-C(b)-VMI-06-ICAR	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr. Swati Dahiya	Dr. Anshul Lather
2.	Production and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus specific Nanobodies for Application as Diagnostic Reagents	5056-C(g)-VMI-06-OA(HSCSIT)	HSCSIT, Haryana	Dr. Swati Dahiya	Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anshul Lather
3.	Seromonitoring of FMD+HS combined vaccination in livestock population of Haryana	5094-C(g)-VMI-09-OA(AHD) Haryana	HLDB	Dr. Rajesh	Dr. Swati Dahiya and Dr. Akhil K. Gupta
4.	Comparative Studies on Post-vaccinal Humoral Immune Response in FMD+HS combined, FMD alone and HS alone Vaccinated Buffalo Calves at SCBP, Sector-II, Sirsa Road, Hisar	NA	GoI/ ICAR	Dr. Rajesh and Dr. S. S. Juneja	Dr. Swati Dahiya, Dr. Akhil K. Gupta, and Dr. S. Saravanan
5.	Production and applications of bovine interleukin-17 and anti IL-17 monoclonal antibodies	5531-C(b)-Micro-08(ES)-ICAR	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr. S. K. Kadian	Dr. Akhil K. Gupta and Dr. Anita Dalal
6.	Centre of Advanced Faculty Training in Veterinary Microbiology	5003-C(b)-VBH-14-ICAR	ICAR, New Delhi	Dr. Rajesh	NA

State Plan & Non-Plan Research Schemes

Sr. No.	Title of the project	LUVAS Scheme No
1.	Studies on Infection and Immunity in relation to Foot and Mouth disease virus and HaemorrhagicSepticaemia	138-C(a)-VMI-1-Dev. Work

Ongoing Institutional Projects: