Employee Profile

Scientific staff profile and professional achievements

Scientist
Basic Information
  • Name: P. K. Pradhan
  • Designation : Principal Scientist Head
  • Department : EAAH
Educational Qualification
  • B.F.Sc., Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Orissa, India
  • M.F.Sc. (Aquaculture) Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Orissa, India
  • Ph.D. (Aquaculture) University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
Professional Experience:
  • 2002-2008, Assistant Professor, Central Agricultural University, Tripura, India
  • 2008-2014, Senior Scientist, ICAR-National Bureau of fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, India
  • 2014-2023, Principal Scientist, ICAR-National Bureau of fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, India
  • 2023- to-date, Head, Exotics and Aquatic Animal Health Division
Research Focus
  • Fish oomycete diseases, Therapeutics, Aquatic animal disease surveillance

Current Research Projects:

  • National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases
  • CRP on Vaccines and Diagnostics: Development of point-of-care diagnostic kit and vaccine against Tilapia Lake Virus
  • All India Network project on Fish Health: Evaluation of efficacy of antifungal-compounds against fish oomycete diseases
Publications
  • Pradhan, P.K., Rathore, G., Sood, N., Verma, D.K., Chaudhary, D.K., Abidi, R., Punia, P., Jena, J.K. 2014. Emergence of epizootic ulcerative syndrome: large-scale mortalities of cultured and wild fish species in Uttar Pradesh, India. Current Science 106, 1711-1718.
  • Pradhan, P.K., Sood, N., Yadav, M.K., Arya, P., Kumar, U., Kumar, C.B., Swaminathan, T.R., Rathore, G. 2018. Effect of immunization of rohu Labeo rohita with inactivated germinated zoospores in providing protection against Aphanomyces invadans. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 78: 195-201.
  • Pradhan, P.K., Verma, D.K., Peruzza, L., Gupta, S., Haq, S. A., Shubin, S. V., Morgan, K.L., Trusch, F., Mohindra, V., Hauton, C., van West, P., Sood, N. 2020. Molecular insights into the mechanisms of susceptibility of Labeo rohita against oomycete Aphanomyces invadans. Scientific Reports 10(1), 19531.
  • Sood N, Verma DK, Paria A, Yadav SC, Yadav MK, Bedekar MK, Kumar S, Swaminathan TR, Mohan CV, Rajendran KV, Pradhan P.K. 2021. Transcriptome analysis of liver elucidates key immune-related pathways in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus following infection with tilapia lake virus. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 111:208-219.
  • Dev Kumar Verma, N. Sood, Anutosh Paria, T. Raja Swaminathan, C.V. Mohan, K.V. Rajendran, Pradhan P.K. 2022. Reassortment and evolutionary dynamics of tilapia lake virus genomic segments. Virus Research 308, 198625
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Awards & Fellowships
  • National Award for e-governance 2024 (Silver) for NSPAAD- Establishment of e-Governance in aquatic animal disease management system under category IV (Research on Citizen Centric Services by Academic/Research Institutions).
  • Team Excellence Award of ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources for the year 2018-19
  • Best Research group of ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources 2014-15