Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences ,New Delhi, India
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Prof. Urvashi B Singh,M.D.;Ph.D.,All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi is a committed researcher at AIIMS for past 31 years with additional responsibility as Deputy Director General of National TB Elimination Program. She is a member of Expert Committees of CDSCO, ICMR, DST, DBT, and WHO. Her pursuit of applied clinical research in the field of MDR, XDR-TB, TB treatment failure, epidemiology, diagnostics, novel biomarkers and drug regimens, has direct policy relevance. Her TB cohort studies have suggested novel hypotheses for relapse/reinfection with implications for treatment regimen change. Her quest for novel biomarkers have yielded novel peptides by studies involving proteomics, novel metabolic biomarkers using metabolomics approaches. These biomarkers are being taken up for design of diagnostic kits. She has five patents, 4955 Citations, 72 i10-index, 32 h-index, more than one hundred eighty peer-reviewed publications, 8 book-chapters, 54 completed, 10 ongoing extra-mural/intra-mural research projects and several awards. She continues to strive hard in her efforts towards TB control and elimination.