Aims of our Institution:

AIVI have been an outcome of visionary approach of our Founder President Dr. Ashok K Chauhan. It was established in August 2010. Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology (AIVI) is exclusive institute of integrated research and postgraduate teaching program in Virology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology and Genomics with the aim to generate specialized manpower in the field of Immunology and Virology. It is an exclusive Institute to offer M.Sc. and PhD in Immunology/Virology/Genomics to promote Immunology education and research and its applications in preventive and therapeutic health care. At graduate level AIVI runs B.Sc. (Honors) in Life Science program. This institute aims to generate human resource of hardcore virologists, genomicists as well as immunologists. It also aims in creating awareness about immunology and virology, the relevance of immunological and virological research to combat major diseases and how can the young generation take the challenges of human health globally by adopting research in this field as their career goal. AIVI has highly qualified faculty with PhD and post-doctoral experience focused towards high end research. At present numerous research projects funded from premier organizations like DST, DBT, CSIR, ICMR are running in the department. We are having several international collaborations such as Indiana University, USA; University of Utah (USA), La Plata University (Argentina). We are also collaborating with leading Institutes, Hospitals and Companies at National level such as AIIMS, UCMS, NCDC, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Maulana Azad Medical College, Assam Medical College and Hospital, Talwar foundation, Seth Foundation, IARI, DMRC, NRCE, Max Hospital, Fortis Hospital, etc.