Vice-Chancellor

Prof. (Dr.) Naresh Jindal has a vast experience of more than 35 years in teaching, research and extension at various capacities. Dr. Jindal pursued his Master’s and Ph.D. from department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, Haryana. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, he has worked on poult enteritis syndrome in turkeys and avian influenza in wild birds. With the assignment of Director of Research, he is actively involved in disease investigation of domestic animals and birds in the state of Haryana. Dr. Jindal is the key person for equipping the university with various molecular diagnostics for detection of pathogens such as Newcastle disease virus, infectious bursal disease virus, infectious bronchitis virus, PPR virus, classical swine fever virus, haemoprotozoan infections of livestock. He has carried out molecular epidemiological studies on various animal diseases like fowl adenovirus and infectious bursal disease virus. Moreover, Dr. Jindal also has envisaged epidemiological studies for PPR, sheep pox, enterotoxaemia, FMD, Mycoplasma infection and parasitic diseases in sheep and goat in the state of Haryana. Under his guidance, research on chicken astrovirus and avian nephritis virus from gout- or enteritis -affected commercial broiler chickens also has been ventured. For paving a factual path towards the ‘One Health’, he has handled two projects as Principal Investigator (funded by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India), namely ‘DBT Network programme on bovine tuberculosis’ and ‘DBT network programme on Anthrax Diagnosis and Control in India’ indulging researchers on a analogous platform from diverse fields such as agriculture, basic sciences, medical sciences, veterinary and animals sciences. Of late, he has also completed an international project funded by Defense Threat Reduction Agency project on respiratory viruses in poultry, wild bids and backyard poultry with University of Minnesota, USA as Lead Institute. Dr. Jindal insight to liaise and establish vital linkage with researchers from various departments of the State Government and Union Government, National and International Research Institutes specialized in the field of Veterinary, animal sciences, fishery sciences and allied sciences with a view to keep abreast of the latest technology and to fulfil the ‘One Health’ in its true sense.

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