Prof. Rentala Madhubala

Prof. Rentala Madhubala is the Director, Centre for Digital Public Health (CDPH) and Senior Advisor, R & D. She is an eminent, nationally and globally recognized academician, researcher, and administrator. She has been a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for three decades, with a very strong track record both academically and administratively. She has been conferred several prestigious awards and honors including the President of India’s Visitor Award for research, the Rockefeller Career Award, USA, the Career Research Initiative Award by Welcome Trust, UK, and the National Senior Women Bio-scientist Award for lifetime achievements by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. She was elected to The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). She is a member of all the 4 major National Academies of Science – FNA, FNAMS, FNASc, F.A.SC. She has been an adjunct faculty at the Centre for Infectious Diseases, Seattle (aka Seattle Biomedical Research Institute) USA for 15 years while being a full-time faculty member at JNU. She was conferred a Visiting Professorship by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). She has extensive international training and research experience in infectious diseases with several global collaborations and projects with institutions in the USA, UK, Israel, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. She was principally responsible for managing international training programs in Global Infectious Diseases for six years in association with the University of Washington, Seattle USA, and Seattle Biomed supported by grants from NIH, USA. She has extensive international training and research experience in infectious diseases with several global collaborations and projects with institutions in the USA, UK, Israel, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. She was principally responsible for managing international training programs in Global Infectious Diseases for six years in association with the University of Washington, Seattle USA, and Seattle Biomed supported by grants from NIH, USA. Her major contributions are in Medical Biotechnology spanning Drug Development, the development of diagnostic biomarkers for drug resistance in clinical isolates, point-of-care devices and diagnostic assays for infectious diseases, vaccine development, high throughput immunological screening of vaccine candidates, and vaccine concept development. She has over 129 research publications in high-impact international journals and 32 research scholars obtained their Ph.D.’s under her guidance.