Dr. Aashish Choudhary
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Aashish Choudhary- Write-up for the AIIMS website (April 2023)
Aashish, an alumnus of AIIMS Delhi, completed his MD in Microbiology from the institute in the year 2007. He is currently in-charge of the virology laboratory of the department.
His areas of interest include congenital viral infections (HCMV), viral hepatitis (HBV, HCV, HEV, HAV, etc.), infections in SOT/HSCT recipients (HCMV, EBV, etc.), viral STI’s (HPV, Human adenoviruses, HSV 1&2, etc.), viral haemorrhagic fevers (Dengue fever), cell culture, and molecular virology.
Academic Qualifications
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AAHIVM Expert- American Association of HIV Medicine, USA, 2021
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CIC- Certification Board of Infection Control & Epidemiology, USA, 2020
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FCCM- Canadian College of Microbiologists, Vancouver; Canada, 2019
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D (ABMM) - American College of Microbiology, Washington; USA, 2018
Awards
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Year |
Award |
Work |
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2005 |
Meghna Baweja Award for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, IAMM Delhi |
Detection and Genotyping of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) from Neonates with Congenital infection. |
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2009 |
Best Poster Award- IAMM Delhi |
Screening for Cryptosporidium muris infection in fecal smears from patients with by modified acid-fast staining and micrometry. |
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2009 |
Best Poster Award- IAMM Delhi |
Morphological variations in intestinal coccidian oocysts by modified Kinyoun acid-fast staining of archived fecal smears. |
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2012 |
Sanjay Sardana Memorial Award for Immunodiagnostic techniques, IAMM |
Significance of anti-HCV signal-to-cutoff ratio (S/Co) in predicting HCV viremia in patients with suspected HCV infection. |
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2015 |
IAMM prize for Best Published Paper in Virology (Ind. J Med. Microbiol.) |
Comparison of Conventional, Immunological and Molecular techniques for the diagnosis of Congenital HCMV infection. |
Publications/Abstracts in indexed journals- 61
Book Chapters- 4
