Ph.D. King George Medical University, Lucknow/National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi

1. Postdoctoral fellowship Award from University of Central Florida, Orlando-FL (U.S.A.)
2. Postdoctoral fellowship Award from University of Florida, Gainesville-FL (U.S.A.)
3. Best Thesis University Gold Medal (2009)
4. Archana Ayyagiri Gold Medal Award from Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist
5. George McCracken Infectious Disease Fellow Award from American Society of Microbiology
6. National Fellowship Award from Indian Council of Medical Research.
7. Best Paper Award by Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist.
8. Best Poster Award by Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist.

1. Member National Technical Expert Group (Diagnosis) for National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, Central TB Division, Ministry of Family & Health Welfare, Govt. Of India.
2. In the WHO Expert Panel as Mycobacteriology Laboratory Expert.
3. Editorial Member and reviewer for “Microbial Pathogenesis”.
4. Editorial member and reviewer for “Frontiers in Microbiology:
5. Editorial member and reviewer for “International Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy”.
6. Reviewer for the ‘Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases”.
7. Ex-Chairman, Institutional Biomedical Waste Management Committee, ICMR-NIRT, Chennai
8. Ex Member, of various Institutional Committees at ICMR-NIRT, Chennai
9. International Union for TB & Lung Diseases.
10. American Society of Microbiology
11. Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists

USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal & Bangladesh

Environmental Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Host-Microbial Interaction and Resistance

1. Nema RK, Singh S, Singh AK, Sarma DK, Diwan V, Tiwari RR, Mondal R, Mishra PK. Protocol for detection of pathogenic enteric RNA viruses by regular monitoring of environmental samples from wastewater treatment plants using droplet digital PCR.Science in One Health 2024;3:10800 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soh.2024.100080

2. Bagde S, Anupam R, Mondal R. Antibiofilm properties of garlic (Allium sativum) and its interaction with methicillin against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Ars Pharma Ceutica 2024; 65 (3), 232-39.

3. Nirmal C, Ebenezer R, Balasubramanian M, Magdaline D, Radhakrishnan A, Paraman R, Mondal R & Dusthackeer A.Dodecanoic acid & palmitic acid disarms rifampicin resistance by putatively targeting mycobacterial efflux pumpRv1218c. Indian J Med Res 157, February and March 2023, pp 192-203 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_1610_22

4. Mondal R, Duthackeer A, Kannan, P, Singh AK, Kannan T, Radhakrishnan M, Shainaba A,Mahizhaveni B,Padmasini E, Sam R, Bharadwaj DK, Gandarvakottai S A, Suresh G, AK Hemanth, Manjula S, Sripad A P, Jaleel UCA, Mukesh D, Ramasamy B, Tripathy S P, Vanaja K. In-vivo studies on Transitmycin, a potent Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibitor”. PLoS ONE 2023;18(3): e0282454.

5. Mondal R, Ahuactzi ZS, Bustos JS, Schultz A, Jorge A, Santos Y, Laguna Y M, María L. Ramírez C and Jorge G A. The Ecp D tip adhesin of the Escherichia coli common pilus mediates binding of enteropathogenic E. coli to extracellular matrix proteins. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022; 23:10350-10362.

6. Palani N, Premkumar M, Vaishnavee V, Dinesh V, Thiruvengadam K, Lavanya J, Kaleeswari, Sridhar R K, Frederick A,Sivaramakrishnan G, Mondal R, Padmapriyadarsini C, Sivakumar Shanmugam S. Trend of resistance to Rifampicin and Isoniazid in presumptive Tuberculosis patients and mutation patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis : a four-year retrospective analysis from National Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis, South India. Int J TB & Lung Dis, 2022; 26 (5) 446-453.

7. Priya R, Padmapriyadarshini C, Mondal R. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria-Not a neglected pathogen Anymore-Proof from Indian perspective. Int J Mycobacteriol 2021; 10:217-27.

8. Gopalaswamy R, Subbian S, Shanmugam S, Mondal R, Padhmapriyadarshini C. Recent developments in the diagnosis and treatment of extra pulmonary non- tuberculous mycobacterial diseases Int J TB & Lung Dis, 2021; 25(5): 340–349.

9. Dolla C K, Bhaskaran D, Padma P C, Sriram S, Aravindan P, Kannan T, Rajendran K, Mondal R, Muniyandi M, Srinivasa B Lakshmi M, Tripathy SP. Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis and associated risk factors: A community survey in Thirvallur District, south India. PLoS ONE 2021;16(10): 1-13.

10. Dusthackeer V N, Kumar A, Sucharitha KK, Shivakumar S, Raghavi S, Azhagendran S, Vetrivel S, Gangadhar V R, Yadav R, Vijayachari P, Purthy A J, Hussain T,Kashyap V, Rekha K, Kumar A, Krishnan I, Anand P, Das P, Bansal AK, Das M, Kaur H,Raghunath D, Mondal R, T E Beena. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain Lineage in Mixed Tribal Population Across India and Andaman Nicobar Island. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021;37(192):1-10.

11. Bagde S, Mondal R, Naidu KSB, Anupam R. Antibacterial properties of organosulphur compounds of garlic (Allium sativum). Frontiers Microbiology 2021;12 (613077):1-20.

12. Kaur P, Potluri P, Ahuja VK, Naveenkumar C N, Ramya VK. Shruthi TG, Shivarudraiah P, S. Eswaran S, Nirmal C, Dusthackeer V N, Mondal R, Batt SM, Richardson EJ, Nicholas J. Loman NJ , Besra GS, Shandil RK, Narayanan S. FNDR-20081- A Novel Pre- Clinical Candidate for Treatment of TB/MDR Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis 2021; 129:1- 11.

13. Penn-Nicholson A, Gomathi SN, Mondal, R (Members of the Truenat Trial Consortium) et al. A prospective multicentre diagnostic accuracy study for the Truenat tuberculosis assays. Eur Respir J. 2021 Nov 4; 58 (5): 2100526.doi: 10.1183/13993003.00526-2021. PMID: 34049948

14. M Muniyandi M, Lavanya J, Saravanan B, Senthil S, Sriram S, Karikalan N, Mondal R. Estimating tuberculosis diagnostic cost incurred under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme – a costing study from Tamil Nadu, South India. International Health,2021; 0: 1–9

15. Anupam R, S Bagde S, Mondal R. Antibiofilm and synergistic antibacterial effect of Garlic (Allium sativum) against Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Int J of Infect Dis 2020; 101, 52-53

16. Siva Kumar S, Kumar AS, Devika K, Bhasker M, S Sriram, Dolla C K, AM Pradeep, Tripathy SP, Narayanan P R, Narayanan S, Mondal R. Spoligotyping Diversity of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis over two decades from Tiruvallur, South India. Int J Microbiol. 2020 Oct 14; 88:41512

17. Balaji S, Vanajakumar V, Mondal R. Improved detection of previously undetectable mycobacteria grown in liquid culture. Int J TB & Lung Dis 2020; 24(7): 754-755.

18. Gopalaswamy R, Shanmugam S, Mondal R,Subbian S. Of Tuberculosis and Non- Tuberculous Mycobacterial Infections - a Comparative Analysis of Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. J of Biomedical Sciences 2020; 27:74-91.

19. Dusthackeer A, Shainaba A,Thangam M Hassan S, Geetha R, Hemanth AK ,Nirmal C, Ebeneser R, Mondal R. Wild-type MIC distribution for reevaluating the critical concentration of anti-TB drugs and pharmacodynamics among tuberculosis patients from South India. Frontiers in Microbiology 2020; 11:1182.

20. Tripathi S, Soni K, Agrawal P, Gour V, Mondal R, Soni V. Hypertrophic scars and keloids: a review and current treatment modalities. Biomedical Dermatology 2020; 4(11):0 1-11.

21. Balaji S, Sivaramakrishnan G, Sangamithrai D, Mondal R. Reprocessing of contaminated MGIT960 culture to improve availability of valid results for mycobacteria. International Journal of Microbiology 2020; 172:10-20.

22. Nirmal C, Sam E R, Kannan P, Balasubramanian M, Thirunavukkarasu I, Mondal R, Dusthackeer A. Anti-Tuberculosis Activity of Bio-active Compounds from Selected Medicinal plants. European Journal of Integrative Medicine 2020; 35(11):05-10.

23. Mishra N, Gound SS, Mondal R, Yadav R, Pandey R. Synthesis, characterization and antimicrobial activities of benzothiazole-imino-benzoic acid ligands and their Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II) complexes, Results in Chemistry, 2019; 1:01-08.

24. Dusthackeer A,Balasubramanian M, Shanmugam G, Priya S, Ebenzer SR, Balasubramanian A, Mondal R, Hemanth AK, Ramachandran G, Selevekumar S. Differential Culturability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Culture-Negative Sputum of Patients With Pulmonary Tuberculosis and in a Simulated Model of Dormancy. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019; 10:2381-2390.

25. Sivaramakrishnan G, Subramanyam B, Kumar MP, Golla R, Tripathy SP, Mondal R. Validation of Bedaquiline drug‑susceptibility testing by BACTEC MGIT 960 system for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Int J Mycobacteriol 2019; 8: 329-32.

26. Bhatwalkar SB, Shukla P, Srivastava RK, Mondal R, Anupam R.Validation of environmental disinfection efficiency of traditional Ayurvedic fumigation practices. J Ayurveda Integr Medicne. 2019 Jul - Sep;10(3):203-206.

27. Sushma Bagde Bhatwalkar, Surendra Singh Gound, Mondal R, Rupesh K Srivastava, Rajaneesh Anupam. Anti-biofilm and Antibacterial activity of Allium sativum against drug resistant Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolates from patient samples and food sources. Ind Jr of Microbio, 2019;59 (2), 171-179.

28. Ahirwar D, Bano M, Khan I, Gound S S, Sheikh M U, Mondal R & Khan F. Facile synthesis of macroporous Ag and CuO monoliths as an efficient nonenzymatic electrochemical sensor and antimicrobial agent. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2019; 273: 233-242

29. Namdev P, Dar HY, Srivastava RK, Mondal Rajesh & Rajaneesh Anupam. Induction of T7 promoter at higher temperature may be counterproductive. Indian Jr of Clinical Biochem,2019;1-4

30. Azger D, Kannyan S, Rajdas SE & Mondal R. Diagnostic modalities for tuberculosis. International J of Current Research, 2019; 2 (06):4881-4888

31. Ramakrishnan K, Uma A, Thigyarajan, Vijairaj S, Subramanian T, Senathipathy R & Mondal R. Immunoglobulin status in Pulmonary and extrapulomonray tuberculosis. International J of Current Research, 2019; 11 (06):4560-4562.

32. Ramakrishnan K, Uma A, Thigyarajan V,Vijairaj S, Subramanian T, Senathipathy R & Mondal R. Pneumocystis carnii pneumonia in HIV infected patients from South India. International J of Current Research, 2019; 11 (06):4525-4527.

33. Dar H, Mondal R, Anupam R, Shukla P & Srivastava R. High dietary salt intake correlates with modulated Th17-Treg cell balance resulting in enhanced bone loss and impaired bone-microarchitecture in mice. Scientific Reports (2018) 8:2503.

34. Hamid Y. Dar, Zaffar Azam, Rajneesh Anupam, Mondal R, Rupesh Srivastava . Osteoimmunology: The Nexus between Bone and Immune System. Frontiers In Bioscience (Landmark) 2018; 23:464-492.

35. Dar H, Shukla P, Mishra PK, Anupam R, Mondal R, Tomar G, Sharma V, Srivastava R.Lactobacillus acidophilus inhibits bone loss and increases bone heterogeneity in osteoporotic mice via modulating Treg-Th17 cell balance Bone Reports 2018;8:46–56

36. Paroha R, Chourasiya R, Mondal R, Chourasiya SK. PknG supports mycobacterial adaptation in acidic environment. Mol Cell Biochem 2017 (9); 3211-15.

37. Surendra Singh Gound & Mondal R. Hemolytic activity of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli. Int Journal of Eng Tech Science & Res. 2017; 4 (12), 2394-2396. 38. Dar HY, Shivani C, Karishma S, Azam Z, Anupam R, Mondal R & Srivastava R. Immunomodulatory effects of food additives. Int J Immunother & Cancer Res 2017;

3 (1) 19-31. 39. Namdev P, Mondal R, Srivastava R K, Soni V and Anupam R. An Account of Dengue Epidemics in Central India. J Clin Microbiol Biochem Technol 2017; 3 (2): 031-034.

40. Jain A & Mondal R, Prasad R,Singh K & Ahuja RC. Prevalence of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Indian J Med Res 2008; 128:300-306.

41. Jain A & Mondal R. XDR-TB current challenges and threats. FEMS Medical Microbiology & Immunology 2008; 53:145-150.

42. Jain A & Mondal R, Srivastava S, Prasad R, Singh K & Ahuja R C. Novel mutations in emb B gene of ethambutol resistant Indian strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; a preliminary report. Indian J Med Res 2008; 128:634-639.

43. Jain A & Mondal R. TEM & SHV genes in extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella spp and their antimicrobial resistance pattern. Indian J Med Res 2008; 128:759-764.

44. Jain A & Mondal R. Detection of extended spectrum β-lactamase production in clinical isolates of Klebsiella spp. Indian J Med Res 2008; 127:349-351.

45. Mondal R & Jain A. Extensively drug resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates: A report from India. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13:1429-1431.

46. Jain A & Mondal R. Prevalence and antimicrobial resistant pattern of extended spectrum beta lactam producing Klebsiella spp from neonatal intensive care unit”. Indian J Med Res 2007; 125: 89-94.

47. Nautiyal CS, Bhadauria S, Kumar P, Lal H, Mondal R & Verma D. Stress induced phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolated from alkaline soil. FEMS Microbiology Letter 2000; 182:291-296.

Submitted five novel mutations (not reported earlier) in embB gene of ethambutol-resistant strains of M. tuberculosis in Gene bank (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ nucleotide) and got the accession numbers- Mondal R, Jain A, Srivastava S, novel mutations in embB gene of ethambutol resistant M. tuberculosis. Accession Numbers: GenBank: EF376189, EF376190, EF376191, EF376192 and EF376193

Genetics and transmission factors of Drug Resistance Mycobacteria
ISBN: 978-3-659-48752-1
Year: 2013
Publisher: Lap-Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.

Chapter Title “Antibiotics & Resistance: what should a common people know”.
Year: 2016
Pages: 93-98. Book Name: Nation Building Through Higher Education
Publisher: New Delhi Publishers, New Delhi
ISBN No. 978-93-855503-20-7