About NICED

NICED moved from the rented premises at No. 3 Kyd Street to its own establishment at P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, adjacent to the Infectious Diseases Hospital. The unique feature of this Institute is that it conducts basic research and applied clinical and epidemiological research on diarrhoeal diseases under the same roof. This Institute has its basic science set up with well equipped, modern technological facilities in different disciplines such as bacteriology, virology, parasitology, biochemistry, pathophysiology, molecular biology, electron microscopy, immunology and biochemistry.  Read more...

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• Posted : 24 Mar 2019

  Rotavirus Vaccine Interchangeability Trial Begins Enrolling Participants in Kolkata, India
  Diarrhoeal disease is one of the most important causes of illness and death among under five years children and Rotavirus is the most common agent causing acute watery diarrhoea in that age group. Rotavirus diarrhoea poses a major public health challenge, especially due to the dehydration caused by acute diarrhoea and vomiting, delayed health seeking behaviours of the caregivers of affected children, and lack of primary healthcare facilities in the vicinity of community settings. View Details... 

• Posted : 02 Jan 2019

  4th Hands-on Training Workshop On LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF EMERGING VIRAL DISEASES
  Nominations are invited from Virus Diagnostic Laboratories of the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim and West Bengal for participation in the 4th Hands-on training workshop on 'Laboratory Diagnosis of Emerging Viral Diseases' at Regional Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, on 07th - 09th Feb, 2019. View Details...

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In 1962, about 54 years ago, "Cholera Research Centre" was established in Calcutta (Kolkata) by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct research on prevention and control of cholera and other diarrheal diseases.In 1968, the Centre was given the status of "International Reference Centre for Vibrio Phage Typing" by the WHO following the outstanding studies on cholera phages in Kolkata and later on, in 1978, it was designated as the "WHO Collaborative Centre for Reference and Research on Vibrios". Subsequently, ICMR converted this Centre into a full-fledged research organization with the status of a "National Institute" and renamed it as "National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases" (NICED) in 1979. The WHO recognized this Institute as "WHO Collaborative Centre for Research and Training on Diarrhoeal Diseases" in 1980.

History of journey of NICED over last five decades was eventful. We developed good infrastructure, faculty strength and academic ambience to conduct good quality biomedical research which resulted in strengthening health system related programs like Diarrhoea Disease Control Program. More

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