Prestigious research grant for MVSc Scholar of Vet Varsity

LUDHIANA: Dr. Aadish Balouria, MVSc student of Veterinary Pathology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary And Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana has been awarded with a prestigious research grant by Dr. B.V. Rao Poultry Research Foundation, Pune for carrying his MVSc research on poultry.

The foundation is responsible for offering research grants every year to scholars, who intend to pursue their work on poultry science encompassing every sphere of it like health, nutrition and management aspects.

Dr. Aadish Balouria was selected as a successful candidate for grant for this year for the work entitled “Comparative Studies on immuno-pathogenetic mechanism of avian infectious coryza in chicken and Japanese quail”. He will be carrying out this work under the supervision of Dr. Sidhartha Deshmukh, Assistant Veterinary Pathologist of Department of Veterinary Pathology. This work would define the development of mucosal immunity following infectious coryza infection that can be translated further into vaccine research for futuristic mucosal vaccination practice in poultry. The disease is responsible for severe economic losses to the farmers at both regional and national level. Development of mucosal vaccine would entail path for development of mucosal vaccine in other related diseases that are of infectious origin in livestock and poultry, beside human being.

Dr. Harmanjit Singh Banga, Prof.-cum-head, Department of Veterinary Pathology, expressed his sincere pleasure and felicitated Dr. Aadish Balouria for this remarkable achievement. He urged other students of this department to toil hard to achieve similar feats in future to build up a strong professional and research career for themselves.

Dr. Simrat Sagar Singh, Dean Post Graduate Studies, GADVASU congratulated the student for this competitive success.