Amita Aggarwal

[2] Her career started at SGPGI as a member of faculty in 1996 and she holds the position of a Professor and Head at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology.

[3] In between, she received advanced training in Rheumatology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1995 on an APLAR fellowship and at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center on a research associateship from the Department of Biotechnology.

She has contributed significantly to understanding the pathogenesis of ERA, such as the role of macrophages and T cells, various cytokines and gut microbiome.

She has been holding a National Workshop on Autoantibodies to train Indian physicians in the laboratory diagnostics of autoimmune diseases.

Aggarwal received the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1998, for her studies in auto-immune rheumatic diseases and the ICMR honoured her again in 2001 with the Dr. Kamala Menon Award.