Dr. Nitesh Kumar Jaiswal is currently working as an Associate Professor, Microbiology Manipal-Tata Medical College Jamshedpur-Jharkhand- India. He has done his Post graduation from Kasturaba Medical College, Manipal (Mahé, Manipal, Karnataka) and PhD from Vinayaka Missions University, Salem, Tamilnadu, India. Earlier, he had worked at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar and Patliputra Medical College, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of interest are Zoonotic diseases, Immunology, Virology and Molecular microbiology.