National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases jobs for Project Research Scientist/ Project Technical Assistant in Kolkata. Last Date to apply: 14 Jun 2016
Project Research Scientist/ Project Technical Assistant
Job Description
No. 01/Influenza Network Labs/2016-17
Project Research Scientist/ Project Technical Assistant Jobs opportunity in National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases on purely temporary basis
Project Title : "Enhancing Biorisk Mitigation Awareness in Public Health Community and Creating Laboratory Networks for Enhanced Diagnostic Capabilities to deal with Surveillance and Outbreaks of VHF and RI Diseases"
Project Research Scientist (Non-Medical)
No. of Post : 1
Qualification : First Class Masters Degree in Life Sciences with Ph.D.
Desirable : Experience in handling clinical infectious samples, molecular methods such as real time PCR, Sequencing etc.
Stipend : Rs. 51,030/- p.m.
Age Limit : 35 Years
Project Technical Assistant (Research)
No. of Post : 1
Qualification : Graduate in Life Sciences with DMLT course OR Graduate with one year Field/Lab. Experience.
Desirable : B.Sc. with Experience in handling clinical samples, virus culture and or PCR or M.Sc. in Life Sciences
Stipend : Rs. 28,755/- p.m.
Age Limit : 30 Years
Project Technical Assistant (Research)
No. of Post : 1
Qualification : Lab. Tech – 12th Science with 2 years DMLT OR 12th Science with one year DMLT and one year Field/Lab. Experience as Technician ‘II’. B.Sc. Degree shall be treated as 3 years experience
Stipend : Rs. 17,040/- p.m.
Age Limit : 30 Years
Job Particulars
About Company
Since time immemorial, eastern India, notably the Gangetic delta is considered as the "homeland" of cholera and a focal point of many of the epidemics and most of the pandemics. More than a century and a half have elapsed since Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, was first described by Filippo Pacini and its water borne transmission was demonstrated by John Snow. In 1883, Robert Koch visualized the organism in Alexandria, Egypt and subsequently cultured it in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata). Nearly 70 years later, the toxin that caused cholera was discovered in India by S.N. De in Kolkata and by N.K. Dutta in Bombay (now known as Mumbai). The studies of De and Dutta, in effect, also proved Koch’s postulate by replicating the disease in an animal model and revived the research interest in cholera. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) decided to establish "Cholera Research Centre" in Calcutta in 1962 to research on the prevention and control of cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases.
