Dr. Shanta Dutta
Director and Scientist G
National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases
India
Biography
Dr. Shanta Dutta MD, Ph.D., Scientist G, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, is a clinical microbiologist and a medical research scientist. After graduated in Medicine from Calcutta National Medical College under the University of Calcutta in 1986, she completed post-graduation in Medical Microbiology from the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Mangalore University in 1992. She has joined NICED, a constituent Institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Enteric Diseases, in August 1994 and presently holding the post of Scientist F (Sr. Gr. Deputy Director) in the Division of Bacteriology. She was awarded with RONPAKU fellowship of JSPS (Japanese Society for Promotion of Science) during 2001-2005 by Dept. of Science and Technology, M/O Science and Technology, Govt. of India (Indian counterpart) and was conferred with Ph.D. Degree from Kyushu University, Japan in 2006 under this program. She was selected to participate in the Advanced WHO course on "Immunology, Vaccinology, Biotechnology and Biosafety applied to Infectious Diseases", held in Lausanne, Switzerland during Sept. - Oct., 1996. She has acted as a reviewer for a number of reputed National and International journals. She has been invited to become editorial international board member of various publishing agencies.
Research Interest
Her field of research includes microbiological and epidemiological aspects of diarrhoeal diseases and enteric bacterial pathogens, their genetic characterization, virulence, antibiotic resistance and subtyping by various phenotypic and molecular methods. She has interests in development of rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) and has performed studies on evaluation of various molecular diagnostics and immunodiagnostics for shigellosis and enteric fever. She is interested in exploring mechanism of antimicrobial resistance in various multidrug resistant enteric bacterial pathogens. She is also involved in determination of antibacterial (especially anti-typhoid and anti-diarrhoeal) activity of various herbal products and other biological substances against diarrhoeal pathogens.