Dr Nitya Wadhwa is an Senior Professor at the Translational Health Science & Technology Institute (THSTI). Since August 2017, she has been made faculty in-charge of Clinical Development services Agency (CDSA) from THSTI.

She is a Pediatrician by training and has been doing clinical research for more than a decade. Her expertise lies in implementation of hospital based clinical studies especially clinical trials. She has been associated with several large multicentre clinical trials using zinc for treatment of various childhood illnesses, surveillance for H Influenzae B in tertiary hospitals, establishing a large cohort of pregnant women to find solutions for adverse pregnancy outcomes, and observational studies to understand the development and maturation of the neonatal and infant immune system. She is the Principal Investigator for a large multicountry multicentre clinical trial to see efficacy of adjunct zinc for the treatment of young infant sepsis. She is credited with the development of revised guidelines for the management of diarrhoea in children for NRHM (2007). She was member of National Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) for Consensus Guidelines for treatment of Diarrhoea (2006) and Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (2006). She is instrumental in establishing the data management centre (DMC) at the Pediatric Biology Centre (PBC) of THSTI and runs the DMC for all studies being conducted and coordinated by PBC. She helped establish the Institutional Ethics committee for Human Research at THSTI and in the registration of the IEC with CDSCO. She was the founder member secretary of the THSTI IEC. Her primary research interest is at the interface of young infant and childhood infections, nutrition and immune function. She has authored many publications to her credit including one in Lancet and has co-authored chapters in text books.

Email:nitya.wadhwa@thsti.res.in