Professor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences ,New Delhi, India
Prof. Urvashi B Singh,M.D.;Ph.D.,All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi is a committed researcher at AIIMS for past 30 years and a member of Expert Committees of CDSCO, National TB Elimination Program, ICMR, DST, DBT, and WHO. Her pursuit of applied clinical research in the field of MDR, XDR-TB, TB treatment failure, epidemiology, diagnostics, novel biomarkers and drug regimens, has direct policy relevance. Her TB cohort studies have suggested novel hypotheses for relapse/reinfection with implications for treatment regimen change. Her quest for novel biomarkers have yielded novel peptides by studies involving proteomics, novel metabolic biomarkers using metabolomics approaches. These biomarkers are being taken up for design of diagnostic kits. She has five patents, 4588 Citations, 69 i10-index, 32 h-index, more than one hundred sixty peer-reviewed publications, 8 book-chapters, 44 completed, 12 ongoing extra-mural/intra-mural research projects and several awards. She continues to strive hard in her efforts towards TB control and elimination.