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YRG CARE Infectious Diseases Laboratory

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India • 11 - 50 Employees
Hospital & Health Care

Prof. Suniti Solomon, MD, Founder-Director of the YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE) and her team documented the first evidence of HIV infection in India in 1986, when she was a Professor of Microbiology at Madras Medical College. She subsequently established the institution, which currently provides medical and psycho-social care for more than 20,000 persons with HIV disease and conducting several international clinical trials and educational/training programmes. YRG CARE is one of the multi-sites of NIH (USA) clinical trials.YRG CARE Infectious Diseases Laboratory is accredited by NABL (ISO 15189:2012) and participates in several national and international QA/QC programs, including College of American Pathologists (USA), UK -NEQAS (UK), One World Accuracy (USA), NRL (Australia), NHLS (South Africa) and VQA (USA).The experts/scientists of YRG CARE have contributed to develop several laboratory/treatment guidelines of WHO (Geneva), WHO-SEARO (New Delhi) and, Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute (USA).Organized workshop on "Good Clinical Laboratory Practices (GCLP)"​ http://www.yrgcare.org/gclp/index.php