Dr R S Sethi is currently Professor and Head, Department of Animal Biotechnology, College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr. Sethi's research program is on airway hyper-responsiveness and lung inflammation. Dr Sethi is actively involved in various international collaborations including member of Steering Committee for World Veterinary Association’s (WVA) project on Global Quality Standards for Veterinary Education, Project coordinator of Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program on Genome Editing for Food Security and Environment Sustainability (GEFSES) in collaboration with University of McGill Canada and University of Calgary Canada and Co-investigator in the OIE funded twinning the Veterinary Programs at GADVASU and University of Calgary. He has guided 8 MVSc/MSc and six PhD student as major supervisor. He has published more than 100 original research articles in scientific journals, 110 abstracts and presented more than 20 Invited talks. He has liaised many research accomplishments and hosted scientific events with reputed research teams of University of Calgary, Canada, University of McGill, Canada and University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He had been a part of many global scientific events at Saskatoon, Calgary, San Diego and Boston. Awards and Honour: • Best Teacher Award, GADVASU, 2018 • Short-term visiting fellowship, University of Saskatchewan, Canada • DBT international travel grant • 15 best poster/paper presentation awards during national & international events. • Fellow of Indian Association of Veterinary Anatomists. • Handled 11 grants as PI and Co-PI
Dr Sethi’s main research focus is on airway hyper-responsiveness and lung inflammation. The ongoing and past research has been directed on pulmonary immune modulations following exposure to various environmental pollutants specially pesticides and characterization of single cell transcriptome(s) and proteomes of immune cells during host pathogen interplay.