National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) Invites Application for Project Research Associate II Recruitment 2022

NICED (National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases) is located in Beliaghata, Kolkata. The unique feature of this Institute is that it conducts basic research and applied clinical and epidemiological research on diarrhoeal diseases under the same roof. This Institute has its basic science set up with well equipped, modern technological facilities in different disciplines such as bacteriology, virology, parasitology, biochemistry, pathophysiology, molecular biology, electron microscopy, immunology and biochemistry. Clinical Division of this Institute has set up its units in two different state hospitals, viz. Infectious Diseases Hospital and Dr B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital for Children. The Institute has its own selected field areas for epidemiological studies in semi-urban and rural areas near Kolkata. Research activities of different divisions are supported by the Instrument and Equipment section, Media section and Animal House section.

Though this Institute is principally financed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, different national and international funding agencies extend support to the Institute on specific research projects.
The Japanese International Cooperative Agencies (JICA) has financed a technical collaborative research with this Institute to conduct research on molecular aspects of different enteropathogens with special emphasis on Vibrios.

Several workshops on management and preventive aspects of diarrhoeal diseases are sponsored by WHO, UNICEF and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India. These national and international workshops are conducted at the Institute and also in different parts of India involving doctors of State Health Services and international participants. Several workshops sponsored by WHO, DBT on rapid screening methodology for detection of different enteropathogens are also conducted in this Institute, at regular intervals.

NICED vacancy is for the following Post Research Assistant, Research Associate (RA).

Interested candidates can pursue courses in Post-graduate in Life Science, M.Sc. and PhD degree in life science for a great career at National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases.