Dr Geetika Singh MD

Full Name

Dr. Geetika Singh

Qualifications

MD (Pathology)

Office Address

Room No. 1081, First Floor Teaching Block, Department of Pathology

Specialty

Medical Renal and Transplant Pathology

Areas of academic and research interest

Glomerulonephritis diagnosis with novel markers, Role of complement in glomerular diseases, Podocytopathy, Alport syndrome, Transplant pathology

Notable Awards and Honors

• On the Editorial board of Glomerular Diseases and Indian Journal of Nephrology
• Member, Banff Working group on Electron Microscopy in Transplant Pathology
• Member, Renal Pathology Working group, International society of Nephrology 2021- 2022
• Member, Website and Communications Committee, Renal Pathology Society 2019 – 2020, 2021- 2022
• Member, International Society of Nephrology South Asia Regional Board 2021 – 2022
• Faculty, GlomCon Virtual Fellowship 2020- 2021, 2021 - 2022
• Awarded Talented Young Pathologist  at DAPCON 2019
• Awarded Dr V Ramalingaswamy Award for best oral presentation at DAPCON 2011

Books and chapters

Singh G, Dinda A. Pathology of Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome – Elsevier update (Ed. Dr RN Srivastava)

Top Research publications

1. Kistler AD, Singh G, Altintas MM, Yu H, Fernandez IC, Gu C, Wilson C, Srivastava SK, Dietrich A, Walz K, Kerjaschki D, Ruiz P, Dryer S, Sever S, Dinda AK, Faul C, Reiser J. Transient receptor potential channel 6 (TRPC6) protects podocytes during complement-mediated glomerular disease. J Biol Chem. 2013 Dec 20;288(51):36598-609.

2. Singh G, Singh L, Ghosh R, Nath D, Dinda AK.Immunofluorescence on paraffin embedded renal biopsies: Experience of a tertiary care center with review of literature. World J Nephrol. 2016 Sep 6;5(5):461-70

3. Singh L, Singh G, Bhardwaj S, Sinha A, Bagga A, Dinda A. Dense Deposit Disease Mimicking a Renal Small Vessel Vasculitis. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Jan;27(1):59-62.

4.  Singh G, Pradeep I, Agarwal S, Barwad A, Dinda A. Paraffin Immunofluorescence: A Role Beyond Kidney Biopsies. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2019 Nov/Dec;27(10):773-775.

5.  Singh G, Singh SK, Nalwa A, Singh L, Pradeep I, Barwad A, Sinha A, Hari P, Bagga A, Bagchi S, Agarwal SK, Dinda AK. Glomerular C4d Staining Does Not Exclude a C3 Glomerulopathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2019 Feb 13;4(5):698-709.

6. Kaur C, Pramanik A, Kumari K, Mandage R, Dinda AK, Sankar J, Bagga A, Agarwal SK, Sinha A, Singh G, Acharya P. Renal detection of Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi in malaria associated acute kidney injury: a retrospective case-control study. BMC Res Notes. 2020 Jan 20;13(1):37.

7. Subramanian P, Kumar H, Tiwari B, Barwad A, Bagchi S, Bagga A, Agarwal SK, Dinda AK, Singh G. Profile of Indian Patients With Membranous Nephropathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2020 Jul 2;5(9):1551-1557.

8.  Singh G. C4d in Proliferative Glomerulonephritis. Indian J Nephrol. 2021 Mar-Apr;31(2):93-94.

Ongoing Research Projects

The Genetic Landscape of Alport syndrome in India with Phenotypic correlation. Funding Agency : ICMR- Task force For Rare diseases ( 2020 - 2023) - PATIENT RECRUITMENT ONGOING

Links

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Geetika+Singh