Dr. Gurpreet Kaur, Assistant Professor of Virology in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, GADVASU, Ludhiana has won the Young Scientist Award at the recently concluded National Symposium and VIII Annual Congress of the Indian Society for Advancement of Canine Practice organized at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at Jammu. The award was conferred on Dr. Gurpreet Kaur for her paper entitled “Diagnosis of Canine Parvovirus using Nested-PCR and comparison of blood profile in affected dogs.” The paper was co-authored by Mudit Chandra, Harsimran Kaur, Ramneek and P.N.Dwivedi. The Paper outlined a sensitive molecular diagnostic method for early and specific diagnosis of the disease affecting young dogs and causing heavy mortality.
Dr. Gurpreet Kaur is already one of the winners of the FM Burnett Award for team research of the Indian Society for Veterinary Immunology and Biotechnology for the work pertaining to the development of a pen side kit carried out in the department.
Dr. P. N. Dwivedi, Professor of Virology in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, GADVASU also presented a lead paper on Canine Parvovirus and chaired a session in the conference.
