Dr. Ekta Gupta at present Professor Virology, did her MD Microbiology from KGMC Lucknow, Senior Residency from AIIMS, New Delhi and Senior Research Associateship in Clinical Virology from AIIMS. She is FRC Path from Royal College of London. She was granted Gold Medal for her MD. She did post MD research work on Dengue virus for which she was awarded with “The Best Scientist Award” for outstanding contribution in clinical research by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)”. Her major research interests are in Hepatitis Viruses, Transplant viruses, Respiratory viruses and Dengue virus. Have more than 140 scientific publications in indexed National & International Journals and author of 15 chapters in books. She is the Nodal officer for WHO CC and COVID-19 testing at ILBS. She is actively involved in organizing various vaccinations and screening camps for viral hepatitis in the community. She is the Chairman of the Institutes Biosafety Committee and  active member in many other Institutional and outside the Institute Committees. She has to her credit several extramural research grants both at National and International level. She has been instrumental in initiation of a unique PDCC course in Hepato-virology and Transplant Virology at ILBS for MD Microbiology students.She is also a part of Technical resource person in the National Viral Hepatitis Control Program in India and also State Viral Hepatitis Control Program, Delhi. Team leader for the conduction of 5th and 6th serosurveys done in the Delhi State for COVID-19 IgG antibody prevalence and faculty In charge for COVID -19 genome sequencing surveillance activities.

MD : Microbiology K.G.M.C. Lucknow

MBBS : GSVM Medical College, Kanpur

• Invited as speaker for Pre-conference Hands on workshop  on “Diagnostic Stewardship: Role of advanced microbiological techniques” in 46^th Annual Conference of IAMM held at Lucknow from 23^th to 26^th November 2023
• Invited as speaker for Symposium on “Clinical Microbiology at crossroads: Genomics to Precision Medicine” in 46^th Annual Conference of IAMM held at Lucknow from 23^th to 26^th November 2023
• Delivered talk on “Screening in transplant recipients” in 15^th Annual conference of IAMM Delhi Chapter” on 2^nd - 4^th November 2023.
• Delivered talk on “Recent advances in Viral Hepatitis” in 2^nd CIDS Delhi NCR Chapter 2023, held at New Delhi on 29^th October 2023
• Invited as panelist in symposium at International Liver Cancer Course 2023 held in New Delhi from 13^th -15^th October, 2023.
• Resource faculty in pre-conference workshop on “Unveiling the secrets of Hepato-viruses” in International Liver Cancer Course 2023 held in New Delhi from 13^th -15^th October, 2023
• Delivered talk on “Transplant associated Infections” in IAMM PG Master Class held on on 25^th August 2023.
• Delivered talk on “Understanding of Viral Hepatitis” in 1^st International CME held at AIIMS Rajkot on 28^th July 2023.
• Delivered talk on “Eliminating Hepatitis C Virus: Challenges and Opportunities” at AIIMS Bhopal on 28^th July 2023.
• Delivered talk on “Rising Trend of Symptomatic Infections Due to Hepatitis A Virus Infection in Adolescent and adult age Group: An observational study from A Tertiary Care Liver Institute in India” in Global Hepatitis Summit 2023 held at  Paris from 25^th-28^th April 2023.
• Delivered talk on “Viral Sepsis” in  4th National Conference on Critical Care and Infections in Liver Diseases held at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi from 3^rd- 5^th March’ 2023

Total number of publications till date: 142

Details/List of publications in 2023: 12

Total number of Projects as PI (till date):14

Details/List of ongoing projects: 08