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Meet Our Team

Investigators, centres and project staff behind India’s national DNA database.

Coordinating Centre

Dept. of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, AIIMS, New Delhi
Professor (Dr.) Chittaranjan Behera
Principal Investigator

Professor (Dr.) Chittaranjan Behera

MD (AIIMS), FIMSA, FICFMT, MAMS
ICMR International Fellowship at UAB, Birmingham, USA

Faculty In charge DNA laboratory

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Co-Principal Investigator(s)
  • Dr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta, Professor & Head
  • Dr. Abhishek Yadav, Professor
  • Dr. Nidhi Sharma, Scientist II

Our Centres

AIIMS, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand

PIDr. Ashish Bute, Addl. Prof.

  • CO-PIDr. Binaya Kumar Bastia, Prof. & Head

AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

PIDr. Tanuj Kanchan, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Raghavendra Singh Shekhawat, Addl. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Vikas P Meshram, Addl. Prof.

AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

PIDr. Manoj Kumar Mohanty, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Sindhu Sudha Sahu, Asst. Prof.

AIIMS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

PIDr. Raghavendra Kumar Vidua, Prof.

  • CO-PIDr. Ashok Kumar, Prof.

JIPMER, Puducherry

PIDr. Kusa Kumar Shaha, Prof.

  • CO-PIDr. Ambika Prasad Patra, Addl. Prof.

Maulana Azad Medical College & Hospital, Delhi

PIDr. Sunil Naagar, Director Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Amandeep Kaur, Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Dhiraj Buchade, Prof.

Biology Division of CFSL(CBI), Delhi

PIDr. Braja Kishore Mohapatra, Director, C.F.S.L, New Delhi

  • CO-PIDr. Kamal Chauhan, Assistant Director & Scientist C (Biology)

Forensic Biology & Biotechnology, NFSU, Delhi

PIAir Cmde R. N Gaikward

  • CO-PIDr. Hirak Ranjan Dash, Ex. Asst. Prof.

Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab

PIDr. J.S. Sehrawat, Assoc. Prof. & Chairperson

AIIMS, Nagpur, Maharashtra

PIDr. Manish Shrigiriwar, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Devendrakumar Jadav, Asst. Prof.

AIIMS, Rajkot, Gujarat

PIDr. Sanjay Gupta, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Utsav Parekh, Assoc. Prof.

AIIMS, Deoghar, Jharkhand

PIDr. Nishat Ahmed Sheikh, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Rajesh Kumar, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Abhay Kumar Dheeraj, Asst. Prof.

NEIGRIHMS, Shillong, Meghalaya

PIDr. Amar Jyoti Patowary, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. A.D. Ropmay, Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. D. Slong, Addl. Prof.

AIIMS, Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh

PIDr. Shreemanta Kumar Dash, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Arun Kumar Siddamsetty, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Bedanta Sarma, Assoc. Prof.

AIIMS, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh

PIDr. Mukul Sharma, Asst. Prof.

  • CO-PIDr. Vikash Chandra, Assoc. Prof. & Head

AIIMS, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

PIDr. Manoj Bhausaheb Parchake, Addl. Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Yashwant Kumar Singh, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Ashish Saraf, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Navneet Ateriya, Assoc. Prof.

AIIMS, Patna, Bihar

PIDr. Amit Patil, Prof. and Head

  • CO-PIDr. Binay Kumar, Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Chaitanya Mittal, Asst. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Ashok Rastogi, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Toshal Wankhade, Assoc. Prof.

AIIMS, Bibinagar, Telangana

PIDr. Pragnesh Parmar, Addl. Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Yadukul S, Addl. Prof.

AIIMS, Kalyani, West Bengal

PIDr. Oinam Gambhir Singh, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Ninad Vilas Nagrale, Addl. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Arjit Dey, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Venkatesh J, Asst. Prof.

AIIMS, Guwahati, Assam

PIDr. Kaustav Kumar Bairagi, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Nilesh Ashok Devraj, Assoc. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Samarendra Barman, Asst. Prof.
  • CO-PIDr. Karthi Vignesh Raj K, Asst. Prof.

AIIMS, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh

PIDr. Yatiraj Singi, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Dipen Dabhi, Asst. Prof.

VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi

PIDr. S. K. Tandon, Consultant, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Shashank Tyagi, Asst. Prof.

AIIMS, Bathinda, Punjab

PIDr. Akhilesh Pathak, Prof. & Head

  • CO-PIDr. Jyoti Barwa, Addl Prof.

Project Team

The people running UMID day to day

AIIMS, New Delhi

Coordinating centre
9
  • SJShruti Jain
  • ATArsh Tripathi
  • AGAthira Gopalakrishnan
  • RKRohan Kumar
  • AKAkshay Kalshan
    Web Developer
Scholars & staff
PSPrachi Shukla BNBhival Nishad SGSrishti Gupta SCShriya Chourasia PhD scholar

Participating Centres

Across India
6
MAMC, New Delhi
DDiya RRitik
AIIMS, Rishikesh
SDSarojit Das
AIIMS, Jodhpur
MSMahendra Singh
AIIMS, Bhopal
USUtkrishth Sahani
AIIMS, Bhubaneswar
LJLaxmipriya Jena
JIPMER, Puducherry —

Ex- AIIMS Project Team

Past contributors
9
  • RKDr. Ruchika Kaushik
  • DBDr. Deepak Bharti
  • KADr. Kangana Aggarwal
  • PSPrashasti Singh
  • SGSanya Gaur
  • VKVipin Kumar
  • KGKanika Gupta
  • RVRani Verma
  • SBSnehal Baburajan Namboodiri

Data Management & Project Coordinator at ICMR, New Delhi

Mr. Ajay Singh Dhama
ICMR

Mr. Ajay Singh Dhama

Scientist C, ICMR – Data Centre Unit

The UMID Team Together

UMID team group photo