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LIST OF EXTRAMURAL PROJECTS

Sl.No RC / IEC Number Name of the Principal Investigator / Department Name of the Co Investigators / Department Title Funding Agency Amount Sanctioned Status of the project
1 PIMS/Ethics/2009-10 Dr. Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Preetam Mahajan,
Dr (Brig) Zile Singh,
Dr. Natesan Murugan,
Dr. Johnson Cherian,
Dr. Joy Bazroy &
Mr. Senthilvel – Community Medicine,
Ms. A Meenakshi - Biochemistry		 Prevalence of goitre and urinary iodine status of school children in Puducherry - progress towards elimination of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) State Health Department, Puducherry Rs. 1,59,000 Completed
2 PIMS/Ethics/2009-10 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr (Brig) Zile Singh,
Dr. Joy Bazroy,
Dr. Johnson Cherian,
Dr. Murugan M & Mr. Senthilvel
- Community Medicine Dr. K H Kisku - Respiratory Medicine 		Tuberculosis case-finding and treatment under RNTCP: patient, health system delays in and around Puducherry RNTCP State Task Force Operational Research fund, Puducherry Rs. 4,97,300 Completed
3 PIMS/Ethics/2009-10 Dr. Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Padma & Dr. Lal Bahadur Palo - OBG,
Dr. Vivekanandan – General Medicine,
Dr. Shashikala & Dr. Patricia Anita - Microbiology,
Dr. Renu G’Boy Varghese - Pathology,
Dr. K H Kisku & Dr. Pratima Singh – Respiratory Medicine,
Dr. Nateshan Bhumika,
Dr. Murugan Natesan,
Dr (Brig) Zile Singh& Dr. Y Sharma – Community Medicine,
Mr. Senthilvel - Biostatistics 		Health care seeking behavior among Extra-pulmonary TB(EPTB) including Female Genital Tuberculosis (FGTB) patients under RNTCP in and around Puducherry ICMR Rs.31,35,598 Completed
4 PIMS/IEC/Research Proposal/2011-01 Dr. Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. P Stalin,
Dr. Ramesh Chauhan,
Dr (Brig) Zile Singh,
Dr. Yogesh Sharma – Community Medicine
Dr. Mark Christopher – Cardiology
Ms. Maghida – Dietetics
Dr. Prasanna Sundara Raju – Physical Education
Dr. Sangeetha Narayanasamy – Pondicherry University 		Effectiveness of diet and lifestyle intervention through Information Education Communication (IEC) tools with Angan Wadi Centres (AWCs) as the centre of knowledge dissemination for hypertension (including hypercholesterolemia and diabetes) risk reduction – a cluster randomised controlled trial ICMR Rs. 1.7 Crores Completed
5 RC/2014/25 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra,
Dr. Ramesh Chauhan,
Dr. Prahan Kumar,
Dr. P Stalin &
Dr. Joy Bazroy – Community Medicine 		Developing an innovative tribal health system model estimate burden of TB co-infections and improve the effectiveness of RNTCP in India- ICMR. Multicentericstudy ICMR Rs. 54,58,374 Completed
6 PIMS/IEC/Research Proposal/2014-2015 Dr.Sheela Devi / Micrbiology 2014-2015 Dr.Georgi Abraham – General Medicine
Dr.Reba Kanungo,
Dr.Vivian Joseph Ratnam,
Dr.Ramya SR,
Dr.Anusha Rohit- Microbiology Dr.Ezhilnilavan Sampath &
Dr.Sreejith- Nephrology 		Rapid detection and identification of bacterial pathogens in cases of peritonitis following continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis TamilnadKidney Research (TANKER)Foundation Rs.2,00,000/- Completed
7 RC/16/118 Dr. P Stalin / Community Medicine Dr. Manikandan,
Dr.Vincent Antony,
Dr.Murugan &
Dr.(Brig) Zile Singh - Community Medicine 		Identifying and addressing factors contributing to pre-treatment loss to follow up of tuberculosis patients referred for treatment from medical colleges in Pondicherry: A Quasi Experimental study Global Fund (The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria)Implementation Research Rs.19,26,068/- Completed
8 RC/16/156 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Ashok Kumar Das - General Medicine,
Dr.Murugan &
Dr.Rajesh Kumar Konduru - Community Medicine 		INDIAB Study (Puducherry) ICMR Rs.42,00,000/- Completed
9 RC/17/31 Dr.Sathya GR / Physiology Dr.Priscilla Johnson,
Dr.Subhasis Das - Physiology 		Evaluating the role of periostin as a novel biomarker in Asthmatics of Puducherry Science and Engineering Research Board Rs.3,16,150/- Completed
10 RC/17/32 Dr.D.Rekha / Physiology Dr.Priscilla Johnson,
Dr.Subhasis Das - Physiology 		Role of soluble Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator. Receptor (SUPAR) as a predictor of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Severity Science and Engineering Research Board Rs.5,95,000/- Completed
11 RC/17/34 Dr. Ramya S R / Microbiology Dr.Shashikala Nair &
Dr.Reba Kanungo - Microbiology,
Dr.Veeraraghavan K - Gastroenterology,
Dr.Georgi Abraham - General Medicine 		Occult hepatitis B virus infection among hemodialysis and chronic liver disease patients in a tertiary care hospital. Tamilnadu Kidney Research (TANKER)Foundation Rs. 1,25,000 Completed
12 RC/18/52 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. S. Mahendran,
Dr.Amit Kumar Misra &
Dr. S. Kalaiselvi - Community Medicine
Dr.Aneesh Basheer - General Medicine
Dr.Nishanth S - Paediatrics
Dr. Kevin Manuel - Pathology
Dr. Reba Kanungo & Dr.Shashikala -Microbiology
Dr. Sunil Nanda - Biochemistry 		A Phase I/II, Double Blind, Placebo controlled, Randomized, Multicenter, prospective study to evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of a single dose ‘Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live Attenuated (Recombinant, Lyophilized)’ in healthy subjects: Panacea Biotech (Sponsor) for a Phase III study of Dengue Vaccine development Panacea Biotech Rs, 20,62,370/- Completed
13 RC/18/59 Dr.Sandhya Bhat K / Microbiology Dr. Shashikala - Microbiology &
Dr. Vasanthi - General Medicine 		Serotype and genotype analysis of dengue virus by RT-PCR and sequencing from in and around Puducherry ICMR ICMR Rs. 13,35,000/- Completed
14 RC/18/105 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr.Swasti Tiwari (SGPGI, Lucknow),
Dr.Newtonraj &
Dr.Stalin P - Community Medicine,
Dr.Sivaa R - Biochemistry,
Dr.Moses Ambroise - Pathology 		CARE - Kidney Disease - Biomarkers and newer Therapeutics. ICMR Rs. 5.0 Crores Completed
15 RC/19/52 Dr.Arish/ Anaesthesiology Dr.Hariharasudhan,
Dr.Ranjan R V,
Dr.Mamie Zachariah &
Dr.Sagiev G. Koshy - Anaesthesiology 		Comparison of anaesthetic efficacy of ropivacaine and ropivacaine with nalbuphine as an adjuvant for ultrasound guided supraclavicular brachial plexus blockade: A randomized controlled trial. NEON pharmaceuticals with a research intent Rs.44,950/- Completed
16 RC/20/88 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr.Sudhagar M &
Dr.NayyarIqbal - General Medicine,
Dr. King Herald Kisku &
Dr. Prince George Varughese - Respiratory Medicine,
Dr.JohnyAsir,
Dr.Vivian Joseph Ratnam P - Microbiology,
Dr. Isabella Topno &
Dr.Aravinda Kumar B - Pharmacology,
Dr.Stalin. P,
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru,
Dr.Murugan N,
Dr. R Prahan Kumar,
Dr.Velavan A,
Dr.Newtonraj A,
Dr.Manikandan M,
Dr.Abhilasha Nair - Community Medicine,
Dr. J. Ramesh &
Dr. L. Ravivarman - Govt of Puducherry 		Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Multicentre Phase III Adaptive Clinical Trial to Assess the Safety and Immunogenicity of Gam-COVID-Vac Combined Vector Vaccine for SARS-Cov-2 Infection in Indian Healthy Subjects Human Vaccine LLC, Russia & Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, India Rs. 36 Lakhs Completed
17 RC/2020/87 Dr.Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Joy Bazroy,
Dr. Stalin P,
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru,
Dr. Murugan N,
Dr. R Prahan Kumar,
Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra,
Dr.Velavan,
Dr.Newtonraj A,
Dr. Manikandan M,
Dr.Abilasha Nair &
Dr.Tovia Stephen - Community Medicine
Dr.Reba Kanungo &
Dr.Shashikala - Microbiology
Dr.Aneesh Basheer - General Medicine
Dr Sunil Kumar Nanda - Biochemistry
Dr Kevin Manuel E - Pathology
Dr Nishanth Rajan - Paediatrics 		Community based surveillance for Dengue / DSS at the Urban and Rural Health Training Centres and Govt. Primary Health Centres in the field practice areas of Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry. National Biopharma Mission,Department of Biotechnology BIRAC Rs.5.7 Crores Completed
18 RC/2021/17 Dr. Remya Raj/ Dermatology, PIMS (Co-PI) Dr. Vijesh Sreedhar Kuttiatt – VCRC (PI)
Dr. Philip Raj Abraham - VCRC,
Dr. Kiran CM - Pathology 		Verrucous and hyperkeratotic lesions in filarial lymphedema affected limbs: Clinico-pathological characteristics and association with HPV infection. Vector Control Research Centre-ICMR Rs. 1,00,000 Completed
19 RC/2021/19 Dr. Anil J Purty/ Community Medicine Dr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru,
Dr. A. Velavan &
Dr. Manikandan - Community Medicine 		Epidemiological impact and intersection of the COVID-19 and tuberculosis pandemics in Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa (MPAC19TB) Department of Biotechnology Rs. 11,60,352 Completed
20 RC/2021/57 Dr. Nayyar Iqbal/ General Medicine Dr. Vasanthi,
Dr. Ali H F Karnam,
Dr. Poornima Raj &
Dr. Priscilla Rubavathy – General Medicine
Dr. Velavan – Community Medicine
Dr. Ravichandran - Biostatistics
Dr. Mithun Raj - Radiology 		Optimizing duration of anticoagulation following acute venous thromboembolism (VTE) by assessing residual venous thrombosis by ultrasound – a multicenter randomized controlled trial ICMR Rs. 33,75lakhs Completed
21 RC/2022/26 Dr. Anita/Pathology Dr. Anand Mohanraj - Pathology
Dr. David – General Surgery
Dr. Poornima – General Medicine 		Hospital Based Cancer Registry-Data Management Software-PIMS, in collaboration with ICMR-NCDIR ICMR / National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research Non Funded. Only Technical Support. Completed
22 RC/2022/36 Dr. Pradeep Thilakan / Psychiatry Dr. Parthasarathy,
Mr. Saravanan &
Dr. Rohit Balakrishnan - Psychiatry 		A PHASE II/III, prospective, multi-center, randomized, 4-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, designed to determine the safety, tolerability, EEG effects and efficacy of oral doses of 30 mg bid of Evenamide (nw-3509) in patients with chronic schizophrenia who are symptomatic on their current second-generation antipsychotic (Aripiprazole, Clozapine, Quetiapine, Olanzapine, Paliperidone or Risperidone) medication NewronPharmaceuticals.p.A., Rs. 21,00,000/- Completed
23 RC/2022/49 Dr. Trishana Vaishali / DVL Dr. B. Aravinda Kumar - Pharmacology
Dr. Nithiyaa P - DVL 		A Randomized, Double Blind, Three-Arm, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Design, multi-center, Clinical Endpoint Bioequivalence study of Ketoconazole Shampoo 2% (Test Product) compared with Ketoconazole Shampoo 2% (Reference Product) in adult subjects with tinea versicolor. Novitium Pharma (a subsidiary of ANI Pharmaceuticals INC.), 70 Lake Drive, East Windsor,NJ 08520, USA Rs. 99,500/- Completed
24 RC/2022/171 Dr. Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru
Dr. Saranya R
Dr. Nayyar Iqbal
Dr. Nirmal Raj Francis
Dr. Shashikala
Dr. Sandhya Bhat
Dr. Sunil Kumar Nanda
Dr. Isabella Topno
Dr. Manjunatha C H
Dr. Kevin Manuel
Dr. P Stalin
Dr. Velavan A
Dr. Manikandan
Dr. Sahanaa C
Dr. Roselin M 		A Phase III, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Immunogenicity and Safety of Single dose of Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live Attenuated (Recombinant, Lyophilized) – “DengiAll” of Panacea Biotec Limited in Healthy Indian Adults Rs. 86,68,420/- Panacea Biotec Limited in Healthy Ongoing
25 RC/2023/01 Dr. Anil Jacob Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Velavan,
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru, Dr. Stalin P,
Dr. Murugan N,
Dr. Joy Bazroy,
Dr. Manikandan,
Dr. Saranya R &
Dr. M Roselin – Community Medicine
Dr. Shashikala &
Dr. Vivian Joesph Ratnam - Microbiology
Dr. Nayyar Iqbal – General Medicine
Dr. Sunil Kumar Nanda - Biochemistry
Dr. Nishanth Rajan - Paediatrics
Dr. Kevin Manuel - Pathology 		Community based surveillance to estimate incidence and sero prevalence of acute febrile illness with focus on Dengue and Chikungunya – A prospective multi-centric cohort study National Biopharma Mission, Department of Biotechnology BIRAC Rs. 3,08,41,000 Completed
26 RC/2023/53 Dr. Sandhya Bhat / Microbiology (Site PI) Dr. Kalyani Borde (PI)
Dr. Dilip Mathai – General Medicine
Dr. Shashikala Nair &
Dr. Anusha R - Microbiology 		Impact of rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (RAST) on clinical outcomes of patients with sepsis in low-resource settings International Society Infectious Disease / European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Grant USD 7500 Ongoing
27 RC/2023/70 Dr. Ali Hasan Faiz Karnam /Emergency Medicine Dr. Roselin M &
Dr. Saranya R – Community Medicine
Dr. Naveen Kumar - ICU
Dr. Charulatha Tamilselvan – Emergency Medicine 		Factors associated with sudden deaths among adults aged 18-45 years, India : Multicentric matched case-control study ICMR / National Institute of Epidemiology Rs. 1,50,000 Completed
28 RC/2023/75 Dr. Peter Prasanth Kumar Kommu/ Paediatrics (Site PI) Dr. Michelle Joseph, PhD (PI)
Dr. Nishanth Rajan
Dr. Priya Jose		 Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (4th Edition) : Pearson Copyright and Pearson India Standardisation Project Rs. 4,56,600 Pearson India Education Services. Pvt. Ltd Completed
29 RC/2023/79 Dr. Sunil Subramaniam / Forensic Medicine (Site PI) Dr. Kiruthiga U – PhD Scholar. NFSU (PI)
Dr. Rajesh - Forensic Medicine, IGMC 		Establishing Identity of the Dead Bodies through Fingerprints using Scientific and Macrophotography Techniques Rs. 1.8 lakhs International Committee of Red Cross Ongoing
30 RC/2023/83 Dr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru / Community Medicine Dr. B. Aravinda Kumar
Dr. Saranya R
Dr. Isabella Topno
Dr. Anil J Purty
Dr. Nayyar Iqbal
Dr. Manjunatha
Dr. Anusha – JIPMER
Dr. Dineshbabu – JIPMER
Dr. Sudharsanan - JIPMER
 Implementation of inter-departmental collaborative medication review to reduce potentially inappropriate medication use in the hospitalized elderly patients: A mixed method study Rs. 93,65,926 ICMR Ongoing
31 RC/2024/08 Dr. P Stalin / Community Medicine (Site PI) Prof Jane Hirst, University Of Oxford – PI,
Dr Devarsetty Praveen - George Institute for Global Health (India)
Dr Pallavi Kshetrapal - Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
Prof Shinjini Bhatnagar - Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
Dr Vidhya Venugopal - Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Prof Sagnik Dey - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Prof BaskyThilaganathan - St George's, University of London
Dr Aris Papageorghiou - University of Oxford
Prof Manu Vatish- University of Oxford
Prof Fadil Hannan - University of Oxford
Prof Mark Woodward - Imperial College London 		Effects of extreme heat on maternal, placental and fetal physiology, lactation and newborn health in India £1,994,787.00 Wellcome Trust, UK Ongoing
32 - Dr. Manikandan / Community Medicine Dr. Ramachandran Thiruvengadam,
Dr. Shinjini Bhatnagar
Dr. Arindam Maitra 		MOMI India - Genomics and analysis planning BIRAC INR: 10,65,90,798.60 (Total budget) Rs.35,80,605.60 for PIMS Rs.12,25,113 utilized Ongoing
33 - Dr. Velavan, Community Medicine - Availability, Affordability of Essential Medicines and Acceptability of Generic Drugs in Five Districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry: A Mixed Method Study” ICSSR Rs. 1500000 Only Data Collection Completed
34 RC/2024/104 Dr. Sheela Devi C / Microbiology Dr. Meghna C
Dr. Mary Daniel
Dr. G Seghal Kiran
Prof Joseph Selvin – Pondicherry University
Dr. R Latha - AVMCRI 		Dissecting the role of vaginal and urinary tract Microbiome Dysbiosis in recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: A case control study ICMR Rs. 17500/- Ongoing
35 RC/2024/105 Dr. Mary Daniel/ OBG Dr. Roselin M A multicentric evaluation of Indian population-specific tools for antenatal estimation of gestational age BIRAC- Grand Challenges India Programme, Govt. of India Rs.75,04,200 Ongoing
36 RC/2024/106 Dr. Pradeep Thilakan / Psychiatry Dr. Parthasarathy
Dr. Rohit Balakrishnan 		A Phase III, 52-week, prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multi-center study, with a primary efficacy endpoint at 12 weeks, to determine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of fixed doses of 15 mg bid and 30 mg bid of evenamide as add-on in patients with documented treatment-resistant schizophrenia, which is not adequately controlled by a stable therapeutic dose of the patient’s current antipsychotic medication(s) NewronPharmaceuticals.p.A., Rs. 4,99,296/- for One patient. Total of 30 patient Ongoing
37 RC/2025/19 Dr. Jacob Jayakar/ General Surgery Dr. Mary Daniel
Dr. Sheela Devi
Dr. Ariganesan 		A multimodal, adaptive, intervention to prevent perioperative infection and reduce morbidity and mortality: a stepped-wedge cluster RCT (The Modified Clean Cut ICMR Rs.7,82,800/- Ongoing
38 RC/2025/164 Dr Anil J Purty / Community Medicine Dr. Velavan A
Dr. Stalin P
Dr. Nivya Jeet Daniel
Dr. Johnson O
Dr. Lal Bahadur Palo
Dr. Manikandan M 		International Network for Vaccine Safety Surveillance (INNOVATE): An integrated population and sentinel hospital-based vaccine safety surveillance in six low and middle-income countries. Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Rs. 2,60,31,566 Ongoing