Affiliation : Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
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Dr. Rupesh K. Srivastava is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Biotechnology at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He is a translational researcher and academician with expertise in Cellular and Molecular Immunology. He obtained his Ph.D. from NCCS, Pune, and post-doctoral training at both Columbia University Medical Centre and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York, USA. Dr. Srivastava is an Elected Executive Committee Member (2022-24) of the Indian Immunology Society (IIS). He is credited with discovering the pivotal role of the immune system in the pathophysiology of osteoporosis, a novel field proposed by him as “Immunoporosis” (Immunology of Osteoporosis). His research is featured among Elsevier’s “Bone Reports” “Top-Downloaded and Top-Cited authors” list. His Translational Immunology, Osteoimmunology, and Immunoporosis Lab (TIOIL) at AIIMS is actively involved in deciphering the cellular and molecular interactions between the Immune and Bone systems under both healthy and diseased/infectious conditions. Dr. Srivastava is the recipient of the AIIMS Research Excellence Award-2022, the prestigious “G. P. Talwar Young Scientist Award”- TWICE (IIS-2011 and ISSRF-2019), and Science Communicator Award-2017. He is also a GOLD Medalist (08) during his Master’s. He has executed more than 13 major research projects as a PI being funded by national agencies such as DBT, DST, ICMR, CCRH-AYUSH, and AIIMS, along with several MOUs with International Universities and Industries. Dr. Srivastava has authored close to 100 peer-reviewed research publications in NCBI-Pubmed indexed journals of international repute. His current H-index is 19, i10 index is 32, with total citations of 1700 and a total impact factor of 467. He has published his novel research work in various international journals such as Science Advances, Journal of Immunology, Cells, Phytomedicine Plus, Environmental Pollution, Oncoimmunology, Frontiers in Immunology, Scientific Reports, Bone Reports, Cytokine etc. along with editing one book. Dr. Srivastava has supervised 07 students for the Ph.D. degree, and more than 25 PG students have worked under his mentorship for their internships and post-graduate dissertations.
