“Welcome to the Department of Microbiology”

Department of Microbiology was established in the year 1957 with Prof. S.L. Kalra, Prof. Ghosh Ray and Prof. L.N. Mohapatra as founder members. Prof. S. Balaya founded Virology; Prof. S. Mittal, Parasitology; Prof. Usha Gupta, Anaerobic Bacteriology; Prof. R.A. Bhujwala, Bacteriology & STD and Prof. Ishwari Nair, Entomology.

Heads of the Department:

S. No.	Name	From	To
1.	PROF. S.L. KALRA	1957	1968
2.	PROF. L.N. MOHAPATRA	Jan. 1971	Jan. 1985
3.	PROF. SHRINIWAS	Feb. 1985	Sept. 1990
4.	PROF. RAMESH KUMAR	Oct. 1990	Sept. 1996
5.	PROF. PRADEEP SETH	Oct. 1996	Apr. 2005
6.	PROF. J.C. SAMANTARAY	May 2005	May 2015
7.	PROF. GITA SATPATHY	June 2015	Nov. 2019
8.	PROF. RAMA CHAUDHRY	Dec. 2019	Jan. 2023
9.	PROF. Lalit Dar	Feb. 2023

 

Vision of the department is to provide up-to-date and holistic theoretical & practical training for MBBS, MD (Microbiology), DM (Infectious Diseases), and PhDs; to carry out frontline research in all disciplines of Microbiology and to train good academicians, teachers and researchers in the discipline.

"Department of Microbiology is a multidisciplinary unit consisting of Bacteriology, Anaerobic bacteriology, Special Bacterial Pathogen Laboratory, Virology , Mycology, Serology, Immunology, HIV Laboratory, Parasitology, Mycobacteriology, CBNAAT, Mycoplasma laboratory, STD laboratory and Hospital Infection Control laboratory"

The laboratory facilities include state of the art automated blood culture system, MALDI–TOF (Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization – Time of Flight), Automated identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing system, Gene Xpert, Flow Cytometry System, Conventional PCR, Real time PCR,  Testing for SARS-CoV-2along with the conventional microbiological tools for diagnostic services.

The Department of Microbiology has been at the forefront in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, be it the diagnostic support including RT-PCR and CBNAAT as well as infection control activities.

The Department of Microbiology,  AIIMS, New Delhi has been NABL accredited from 15th November,  2019 as per ISO:15189.  One of the first Department of Microbiology in public health sector for getting NABL Accreditation. All the routine tests of the department including molecular tests are included in NABL Scope.

The NABL Certification No. is MC-3267 and SCOPE is attached.