GADVASU scholar gets research grant for study on coryza infection

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 9

Dr Aadish Balouria, a student of Master of Veterinary Science (MVSc), Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, has been awarded with a prestigious research grant by Dr BV Rao Poultry Research Foundation, Pune, for carrying out his MVSc research on poultry.

The foundation offers research grants every year to scholars who intend to pursue their work on poultry science encompassing every sphere of it such as health, nutrition and management.

Dr Balouria was selected for this coveted research grant this year for the work, ‘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, Department of Veterinary Pathology.

The work would define the development of mucosal immunity following 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, besides human beings.

Dr Harmanjit Singh Banga, professor and head, Department of Veterinary Pathology, felicitated Dr Balouria on his achievement.

Banga urged other students of the department to toil hard to achieve similar feats in future to build up a strong professional and research career for themselves.