Dr. Ekta Gupta

About Me:

Nephromed is delighted to have Dr. Ekta Gupta as our advisor and shall definitely be enriched by her knowledge and experience.

Dr. Ekta Gupta is Professor and Head , Clinical Virology and nodal officer for WHO collaborative centre on Viral Hepatitis at the Institute of liver and Biliary Sciences.

Dr. Ekta Gupta did her, MBBS from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur in 1993 and MD Microbiology from KGMC Lucknow in 1998, Senior Residency from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and Senior Research Associateship in Clinical Virology from AIIMS, New Delhi. She is also FRC Path from Royal College of Pathology, London, UK..

She has more than 22 years of experience in Clinical diagnostic Virology. Have more than 100 scientific publications in indexed National & International Journals and author of 9 chapters in books. She has to her credit several extramural research grants both at National and International level..

She has received several awards, Awarded The Platinum Jubilee Gold Medal for Best Thesis work in M.D. at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow University, Lucknow in1998..

Awarded the Best Scientist award for outstanding contribution in clinical research, by ICMR..

Awarded “Mr. Satish Chandra Talwar Memorial Award” for the Best Published Research Paper by Delhi Chapter IAMM, in Dec 2020..

She has been instrumental in initiation of unique PDCC course in Hepato-virology and Transplant Virology at ILBS. ILBS Virology lab is NABL accredited and is proud to be first few NABL accredited Government Molecular Virology laboratory In India.

She is the In-charge of COVID-19 testing laboratory for Delhi State Govt, is actively involved in COVID testing since March 2020.She is also the In-charge for carrying out Serosurvey for covid-19 infection in Delhi State. Also In-charge of Delhi State Covid-19 Genome sequencing lab at ILBS..