B Dwibedi
Regional Medical Research Centre Bhubaneswar, India
Biography
B Dwibedi is working as a Medical Scientist at ICMR-RMRC, Bhubaneswar. He has 15 years of research experience in the area of Clinical, Molecular Virology and Clinical trials in tropical diseases. He is also the Nodal Officer of Model Rural Health Research Unit and Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. He received National Award from ICMR and nominated as a Member of National Academy of Medical Science for Excellency in tropical disease research. He demonstrated alternate regimen for elimination of lymphatic filariasis and has given the first evidence of sub-clinical lymphatic pathology in children with W. bancrofti infection and its reversal with MDA drugs. His evidences on epidemiology of viral diseases and bacterial infections especially in children could move the programme towards introduction of vaccine against Rota and JE virus as well as Haemophilus influenzae b in the regional immunization programme