Dr. Ramesh Nachimuthu is an Assistant professor senior in the School of Bio-Sciences and Technology-SBST, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He did his National postdoc at VIT, Vellore. He obtained his PhD degree in Microbiology from Bharathidasan University. He became a National Joint Coordinator in the Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance. He has given an Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness talk on All India Radio, Trichy consecutively for three years in 2009, 2010, and 2011. He is a recipient of Young Scientist Fellow in DST-SERB, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He is the secretary of the Indian Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy-SBRT. His Interview was published in the Deccan Chronicle, Pioneer, and Times of India daily newspaper in the field of antibiotic resistance and Bacteriophage Therapy. He is collaborating with 9 countries. He has received many Travel grants from govt. of India to attend international conferences in various countries. He has received two international awards and three national awards from reputed societies. He is an expert reviewer at the National Science Centre, Poland. He is the expert review member in the DBT-BIRAC, Ministry of Science and Technology Govt. of India, New Delhi. Dr. Ramesh was Recently identified as a member of the expert’s committee by the Deputy General, Indian Council for Medical Research-ICMR, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, New Delhi for Bacteriophage Therapy. He has published 90 research papers, and 3 book chapters and submitted more than 175+ genes (MDR and 16S r RNA), 5 class I integrons, and 15 Whole-genome sequencing in NCBI GenBank and patented 1 methodology. Further, he is supervising 5 Ph.D. students and completed 5 Ph.D students.
Agenda 2024-2026
Phage Therapy has renewed interest around the globe now because of antibiotic resistance. As an active researcher of bacteriophage research in India I would like to contribute to the World Society of Virology. The society is dedicated to virological research around the world, promoting virological research and encouraging virologists. Since I am already heading two national societies in India it is another opportunity to take the World Society Virology to the next level. I will also concentrate more on increasing the membership of the society.