Department of Immunology

Department Mission Statement

The department was established in 1998 with the following Objectives:
Research and Training Activities (Special focus on specialised areas like Research areas like immunotoxins, cancer immunotherapy).
To set up a state of art immunodiagnostic lab for sophisticated tests.
To work on areas like Transplantation, hypersensitivity and rheumatological disorder, organ based diseases Non Infective diseases like Diabetes Mellitus.
Various tests for infectious diseases detection.
To organize training program /workshops for medical and paramedical staff.

Department has state of art equipments for sophisticated tests like serology and molecular methods of diagnosis, transplant immunology. Basic equipments for all the immunological parameters are available in the department Elisa technique is being routinely used for screening tests.

ICMR- National Institute of Virology (NIV),

The Department has been involved in doing testing for ZIKA, Dengue and

Chikungunya Viruses as a Part of ICMR –NIV surveillance since August 2016.

TRANSTAN

Recognised by Govt of Tamilnadu for transplant work up pre renal transplant tests.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),

This has been recognized as a COVID -19 testing centre by ICMR and has been doing since 2020 and 321876 tests till date .

Department for Biotechnology,

The Department has been sanctioned an amount of Rs.45 Lakhs for a period of 3 years from DBT to be a part of “Establishment of a Consortium for One Health to address Zoonotic and Transboundary Diseases in India, including the North – east Region” from August 2021.

Teaching

Courses Offered

The Department of Immunology conducts the following training programs:

S.No.	Programme	Duration	Fees	Eligibility
1	Basic in Immunology	5 days	Rs.3,000/-	Under Graduate and Post Graduate students
2	Certificate Course on “Laboratory Immunological Techniques”	6 weeks	Rs.10,000/-	Under Graduate and Post Graduate students
3	Short-term Project	3 months	Rs.2,000/month	Undergraduate and Post Graduate students

Short Term Project

S.NO	STUDENT NAME	COLLEGE	YEAR	DURATION	TOPIC
01	T. Arun Kumar	Alagappa College of Technology	2006	3 months	Detection of human papilloma virus and the immunological status of children affected with laryngeal papilloma
02	C. Senthil Kumar	St. Peter’s Engineering College		3 months	PCR-based method for the detection and differentiation of plasmodium vivae and p.falcipenum
03	Tina Elizabeth Varghese	Madha Engineering College	2008	3 months	Detection and identification of unexpected antibodies
04	A. Rohini	St. Peter’s Engineering College	2008	3 months	Prevalence rate of transfusion transmitted disease among voluntary blood donors
05	Nimin.C.Kurien	Madha Engineering College	2008	1 month	Detection and identification of unexpected antibodies
06		The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University	2008		Platelet alloantibody specificities in multiply transfused patients
07	R.Sharmilsuganya	Loyola College (Autonomous)	2006	1 year	Development of PCR assay for rapid detection of methycillin resistant staphylococcus aureus from clinical samples
08	K.Pradeepa	Loyola College (Autonomous)	2006	1 year	Standardisation of PCR procedure for the detection of leplaspira from the clinical blood sample
09	S. Ranjith	Sathiyabama Institute of Science and Technology	2005-2006	1 year	Standardisation of single step PCR method for the detection and differentiation of plasmodium vivax and plasmodium falciparum
10	S. Premanand (M.Tech)	Sathiyabama Institute of Science and Technology	2006	1 year	Development of PCR assay for rapid detection of mecA gene is staphylococcus
11	M. Ramkumar	Sathiyabama Institute of science and Technology	2006	1 year	Developing and standardizing an In-house nested PCR procedure for the detection of leplaspiraris in clinical blood samples
12	Neelimalathayohaman, Neethanarayanan	Bharath University	2008	3 months	Prevalence of transfusion disease in voluntary blood donors
13		The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University	2008	6 months	Blood donor adverse reactions
14	J.S. Anup	St. Joseph’s College of Engineering	2009	3 months	Viral load, seromarkers analysis of HBV ₊ve patients and HLA typing of Asymptomatic patients
15	S. Rathika	Shrimathi Indira Gandhi College		6 months	Detection of autoantibody in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and HLA typing of the same
16	V.P. Saranya	Sastra University	2009	3 months	Detection of auto antibodies and HlA typing of type
17	K. Saranya	Rajalakshmi Engineering College	2009	3 months	Viral load in hepatitis Bpositive patients on treatment by molecular methods
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19	R. Remya	Rajalakshmi Engineering College	2009	3 months	Serasurveillance of HBsAg positive patients in voluntary blood donars
20	G. Sathyarekha	Rajalakshmi Engineering College	2009	3 months	Identification of autoantibodies and HLA study in insulin dependent diabetis mellitus patients and siblings
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22	M. Indhumathi	Kumararani Meena Muthaiah College of Arts & Science	2010	3 months	Immunoglobulin level as a determinant for the immunological status of pre- and post- renal transplantation
23	S. Padmapriya	Kumararani Meena Muthaiah College of Arts and Science	2010	3 months	Comparison of the best diagnostic tool for detection of material parasite
24	Ramyaseshadri	St. Joseph College of Engineering	2010	3 months	Immunoglobulin level as a determinant for the immunological status of pre-and post-renal transplant patients and its correlation with other parameters
25	C. Kothai K. Malarvizhi	St. Joseph College of Engineering	2010	3 months	Detection of antinuclear antibodies using immunofluoresence and western blotting
26	P. Thilak Pancha	School of Chemical and Bio Technology	2010	3 months	Diagnosis of connective tissue disease
27	C.P. Saranya	Women's Christian College	2010	3 months	Detection of antinuclear antibodies using immunofluoresence and western blotting for collagen vascular disease
28	Deepak Kumar G.P, Kumaresh.J	Shanmuga Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy	2009	3 months	Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing by molecular SSP method in identical and non-identical twins
29	C.NaveenVenkatesh R. Preethi	Shanmuga Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy	2016	2 months	Comparison of presence of GAD auto antibodies in children and adult for LADA /type1 diabetes mellitus
30	J. Pavithrapriya	Kumararani Meena Muthaiah College of Arts & Science	2011	3months	Serological evaluation of antibody status in a pre and post vaccinated individuals, health care personnel, hepatitis B/c affected and in renal patients
31	V. Nivedha	Kumararani Meena Muthaiah College of Arts & Science	2010-2011	3 months	Detection of auto antibodies in LADA patients and HLA typing of patients and their siblings
32	J. Dhivya A.K. Jeheshadevi	SreeSastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2011	3 months	Serological evaluation of antibody status in a pre &post vaccinated individuals , healthcare, personnel, hepatitis B/c affected and in renal dialysis patients
33	A.Sagarika P.I. Vadivukarasi	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2011	3 months	Comparison of immunoglobulin level in normal, virally infected and pre renal transplant patients
34	K.Pavithra Devi V.Priyadharshini	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2011	3 months	Determination of HLA typing infected in normal patients
35	K.Priyadharshini K.Rekha	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2010-2011	3 months	Detection of GAD/IA2 autoantibodies in Diabetis mellitus patients and screening of high risk individuals
36	J.Venkatesh Prasad K. Aravind Prasad	St. Joseph College of Engineering	2011		Comparison of IgG level in normal hepatitis infected pre&post renal in transplant patients &its correlation parameter
36	F.Nancy Rebekah T. Saranya	SreeSastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2010-2011	3 months	HLA typing in LADA patients using molecular techniques
37	G.Karthika	SRM University	2011	4 months	Molecular evaluation of HLA gene polymorphism in hepatocellular carcinoma
38	Pavan Kumar Dara	SRM University	2011	4 months	Detection of auto antibodies in LADA patients and HLA typing of patients and their siblings
39	N. Haripriya M. Vishnu Priya	St. Joseph College of Engineering	2011-2012	2 months	Serological evaluation of TORCH agents in prenatal & perinatal patients
40	P. Anusuya D. Arunadevi	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2012	3 months	Estimation of GAD and IA2 in type 2 diabetes and their siblings.
41	G. Gracevedambal M. Induja	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2012	3 months	Serological evaluation using seromarkers in asymptomatic blood donors for hepatitis B virus
42	S. Divya S. Priya	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2012	3 months	Serological evaluation of TORCH test in perinatal mother
43	K. Chitra	Bharathidasan Institute of Technology	2013	3 months	Comparison of best diagnosis method for detection and quantification of malarial parasite
44	J.E. Ramji	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering & Technology	2013	3 months	Estimation of GAD & IA2 antibody in LADA patients
45	S. Usha	Sree Sastha Instituteof Engineering & Technology	2013	3 months	Detection of levels of IG in pre & post renal transplant patients
46	Harshida Madhavan	KarpagaVinayaga College of Engineering and Technology	2014	3 months	Surveillance of methilicin resistant staphylococcus aureus in school going children and anti-microbial activity of rhizoporamucornata, avicennia alba and avicenniaofficinialis against MRSA
47	KarthikaiSelvi R. Sharmila	Adhiyamman College of Engineering	2016	2 months	Comparison of presence of GAD autoantibody in children and adult for LADA/type 1 diabetes mellitus
48	SP Subramanian ME. Dhusyanandh G. Krishnakumar	Jeppiar Engineering College	2015	3 months	Detection of autoantibodies in younger age diabetes mellitus patient
49	Dinesh Kumar A Muthusanthiya B	Sree Sastha institute of engineering and technology	April 2017	3 months	Serological Evaluation of TORCH AGENTS in Prenatal Patients
50	Soundarya G Mathuvel Kuppusamy P.S	Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology	April 2017	3 months	To detection of GAD65 Autoantibodies in Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) Patients.
51	Devaraj A	Adhiyamaan College of Engineering	February 2021	3 months	Comparison of Presence of GAD Auto Antibodies in Children’s and Adults for Lada/Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
52	Sruthi V.S	VIT Vellore Institute of Technology	June 2022	3 months	Estimation of Seromarkers and Viral Load of Hepatitis B Positive patients.
53	Kishore Balaji .N	Bharthidasan University	June 2022	3 months	Detection of GAD65, IA2 Autoantibodies and C-peptide levels in LADA patients.
54	Yuvaranjani S Sherin C.B.	Bharthidasan University	July 2023	1 month	Estimation of Anti-GAD and Anti-IA2 in Diabetes Mellitus patients to distinguish between Type 2 Diabetes and LADA.
55	Sruthi	Sastra University	August 2023	2 weeks	Basic Immunological Techniques

Continuing Medical Education CME

S.NO	DATE	TOPIC	SPEAKER	No. of Participants
01	24/07/2008	Leptospirosis Program	Dr. Bapi Raju	34
02	09/04/2009	CME on Accreditation of Labs	Dr. Revathi	50
03	22/12/2009	Microarray Technique	Dr. Vijayalakshmi	44
04	09/02/2010	Basics in HLA	Dr. S. Pushkala	18
05	08/10/2010	Guest Lecture on Immunological Techniques	Dr. Kurosawa	68
06	01/03/2013	HLA Workshop	Dr. S. Pushkala	38
07	27/07/2013	Diabetes Mellitus and HLA(ICMR funded)		74
08	10/09/2014	Medical Aspect of EBOLA Virus		56
09	03/12/2014	A-Z About Detection of Bacterial Pathogen		190
10	23/03/2017	Cancer Immunotherapy	Dr. Senthamil R Selvan	61
11	10/05/2018	Hands on Workshop on HLA Typing	Dr. C.N. Srinivas	21
12	25/10/2018	Hands on Workshop	Dr. S. Pushkala	24
13	25/10/2018	Hands on Workshop	Dr. S. Pushkala	15
14	07/01/2019	Hands on Workshop Basic Immunological Techniques		14
15	22/02/2019	Guidance and Parameters for NAAC Accreditation for Health Universities		91
16	19/03/2019	Hands on Workshop		7
17	25/07/2019	1.Biometrtic Sensors for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymers 2. Significance of Immune System with relevance to Oncology and its Functional Evaluation in the General Population	Prof. Yoshimi Dr. Samuel Abraham	48
18	08/18/2019	Hands on Workshop Basic Immunological Techniques	Dr.Pushkala
19	18/09/2019	World Patient Safety Day	Dr.Anuradha Pichumani	61
20	21/12/2019	Basic Training Programme on Human Rights” (NHRC Fund)	Honorable Former Judge Mr. Kannan Mr. Chandru Mr. P. Jyothimani Mrs. PushpaSathyanarayana Tmt. V. Shobhana, I.A.S. Secretary	59
21	02/01/2020	Basic Training Programme	Dr. S. Pushkala	5
22	03/01/2020	Basic Training Programme	Dr. S. Pushkala	7
23	07/12/2021	Diagnosis of Zoonotic Disease	Dr. Azhagiyanambi TANUVAS	32

List of Publications (Titles):

International Papers

S.NO.	JOURNAL NAME	TITLE	VOL.NO. & YEAR
1	Vox Sanguinis	HLA and its importance in Transfusion	89,suppl.2 2005
2	Vox Sanguinis	Donor recruitment motivation and retention – few problems in developing countries	89,suppl.2 2005
3	Vox Sanguinis	NAT testing for HIV,HCV, HBV in Voluntary blood donors in comparison with conventional serological techniques used in blood banks	89,suppl.2 2005
4	International journal of leprosy year	PCR in paucibacillary leprosy patients and their contacts and the effect of treatment	March 2000

National Papers

S.NO.
1	Asian Journal of Transfusion Medicine	Serosurviellance of HBsAg in Voluntary Blood Donors Seromarkers Viral Load of HBV	Volume 3 Issue 1, Jan 09
2	Indian Journal Hematology and Blood Transfusion	Acute Moderate Normovolemic Hemodilution in Elective ortho surgeries	Volume XXI supll1,2003
3	Indian Journal of Pediatrics	Component therapy	Volume 70, Aug 2003
4	Asian journal of Transfusion science	Donor adverse reactions	Volume 2 issue 1 Jan 2008
5	Journal of Biomedical Sciences	The Hand wash asepsis with the usual disinfectants	March 2009
6	Journal of Biomedical Sciences	The effective way of destroying the viruses in collected blood bags	March 2009
7	Journal of Biomedical Sciences	Donor adverse reactions	March 2009
8	Journal of Biomedical Sciences	Study of Microbial organism in drinking water	March 2000
9	Journal of Biomedical Sciences	Incidence of MRSA in health caseworker	June 2010
10	Journal of Biomedical Sciences	Role of Human Papilloma Virus in Juvenile Laryngeal Papillomatosis in Children	Vol 32, p511-515 NOV 2012
11	Biomedicine	The identification of synthetic peptide vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 through reverse vaccinology approach	April-June 2021
12	Biomedicine	Role of therapeutic plasma exchange in liver disease
13	Nueroscience report Journal of International Brain Research organisation.	Beneficial immune modulatory effects of N 163 and Beta glucans to boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy	July 2023
14	Newspaper article	Beta glucan in Duchene Muscular Dystrophy	11^th July 2023

Research

PhD Students:

S.No.

Name of the Candidate

Ph.D. Research Title

Dr. S. Joy Varghese

Role of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (PLASMAPHERESIS) in Liver Disease Patients both Clinically and Immunologically.

Mr. Tammanna Bhajantri

The Expression of Macrophage Coreceptor Cxr4 During HIV-I Tropism

UGC Project

S.No.

TOPIC

YEAR

1H HLA

STUDY ON THE ASYMPTOMATIC HEPATITIS B PATIENTS AND GENOTYPING OF THE VIRUS

2012-2016

University Project

S.No.

TOPIC

YEAR

Serological testing of patients to provide a roadmap for management of Chronic Urticaria - “Urticaria package”

2017-2018

ONE HEALTH PROJECT

S.No.

TOPIC

YEAR

“Establishment of a Consortium for One Health to address Zoonotic and Transboundary Diseases in India, including the North – East Region-Funded by Department of Biotechnology-MoS&T

2021

Up-coming Project

S.No.

TOPIC

YEAR

One Health approach for surveillance of Human Brucellosis-Funded by EpiPointe – An International organization for Epidemiology of Global Health.

2023

Seminars Attended

1. Participated in Transom from 2000-2008 presented paper in all the conference ISOT 2010.

2. Organized many CME, and workshop in Immunology – the latest one being “antibody based Novel approach to cancer treatment”.

3. Published paper in 5 International Journals and 10 papers in National Journal.

4. Hands on training in the “advanced techniques of molecular method of detection” organized by the Cancer Institute (WIA) for fourteen days from 1^st January 2010.

5. Hands on training for HLA by TBG kit by molecular method done by the company expert in our lab.

6. Participated in 37^TH ISBTI-TN TRANSCOM 2012conference & I Presented poster – “Seroserveilance of HbsAg in Voluntary Blood Donors and Serological

evaluation of Asymptomatic HbsAg Positive Voluntary Blood Donors”.

7. Participated in AMEE 2012, LEYON presented two papers in the Conference.

8. Presented a paper on comparison of mCA in nursing and other paramedical undergraduate students – Prague AMEE 2013 Copenhagen A comparison of the Performance of Students from life Sciences vs Medicine and its Allied Specialties in an Objective test on regenerative medicine; the lessons learnt for Curriculum Development.

9. Training in red cell antibody screening and identification 12 September 2012.

10. Lecture on immunology in RPL cases – CME on Recurrent first trimester pregnancy loss – 5^th October 2012.

11. Participated in recent advances in the management type 2 DM- 19^thNov 2014.

12. Presented and published a paper in 74^thsceintifica session of ADA at Sanfranscico on June 13-17, 2014.

13. Presented a paper in FOCIS at Chicago Illinois June 25-28^th 2014.

14 Presented a paper in Immunocon Madurai September 20^th 2014.

15. Conducted a CME funded by ICMR- A=-Z in detection of bacterial Pathogens – December 3^rd 2014.

16. Conducted a seminar on type 2 dm in August 2013.

17. Have conducted around 18 webinars for all our affiliated colleges and PG Students on various subjects – once in a fortnight from May 2021.

18. Chaired a session on 17.11.2021 for NCRM Niche – Japan.

19. Chairing and moderating the national congress on clinical and Microboiological infection diseases - on 4/12/2021.

20. Conducted international update on COVID on 19^th January 2020.

21. Conducted international seminar on Holistic Medicine in December 2018.

22. Spoke on Rabies and one Health as a part of food safety international Conference and workshop conducted by TANUVAS on 26.10/2021

23. Key speaker on immunity and mental health after COVID at Loyola College on 10.11.2021.

24. Attended World one health congress 2022 held at Singapore, Nov 2022.

Lab Test being Done

Branches

Test Name

Price-corporate

Govt and Students

Diabetology

GAD

400

200

IA2

400

200

CPeptide

360

180

Rheumatologist

ANA

395

160

Antids DNA

550

220

ANCA

750

300

CRP

150

ASO

225

110

RA Factor

300

150

Gastroenterology

AntiHBC

300

150

HbeAg

300

150

HBVDNA/HCVRNA

2500

1250

HbsAg

2500

1250

Anti HCV

390

160

Physician

Dengue, ELISA

300

200

Scrub Typhus

400

200

Gynaecology

Toxoplasma IgG

225

110

RPL–TORCH panel

Toxoplasma IgM

225

110

Rubella IgG

225

110

Rubella IgM

225

110

Herpes Simplex

225

110

CMV

275

110

Paediatrics

IgG

500

250

IgM

500

250

IgE

500

250

IgG4

500

250

500

250

500

250

Transplant Team

HLA-(molecular Method)

10000

8000

Faculties & Contact

S.No	Name of the Faculty	Designation
01	Dr. S. Pushkala, MD.,	Professor & HOD

S.No	Name of the Staff	Designation
1	Ms. M. Veeralakshmi	Lab Technician Gr I
2	Mr. K. S. Gurunathan	Lab Technician Gr II
3	Mr. P. Ponnusamy	Lab Technician Gr II
4	Mr. R. Deiveegan	S.G.Lab Technician Gr III

Department of Immunology
The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University,
No.69, Anna Salai, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032
Phone: 91 44 22353548,
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