Rupesh Aggarwal

Fellowship: CSIR JRF 2021, Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF)L 2022.

Scientific interest: Microbial infections pose a growing global health concern. Antibiotics, designed to combat such infections by killing or suppressing microbial activity, were pioneered with Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum. However, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics have led to microbial resistance, prompting the need for alternative approaches. To address antibiotic resistance, my focus is on developing inhibitors as alternatives to traditional antibiotics.

Publications

1. SK Verma, Pooja Mahajan, NK Singh, A Gupta, Aggarwal, R., R Rappuoli and AK Johri (2023): New age vaccine adjuvants, their development and future perspective. Frontiers in Immunology. 14, 1043109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1043109 2. Aggarwal, R., Mahajan P, Pandiya S, Bajaj A, Verma SK, Yadav P, Kharat AS, Khan AU, Dua M, Johri AK (2024). Antibiotic resistance: a global crisis, problems and solutions. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/1040841X.2024.2313024