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A premier institute under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Health Research (DHR), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. Originally established as the Virus Research Centre (VRC) in 1952. Network & Infrastructure includes field units at Mumbai, Alappuzha and Bengaluru; zonal NIVs: Bengaluru (South), Jabalpur (Central), Dibrugarh (East), Jammu (North).
The institute has a mandate to develop capacities and undertake research for viral diseases of human public health importance.
The institute has several international and national recognitions and affiliations including
The Indian Virological Society (IVS), a member of International Union of Microbiological Society (IUMS), was established in December 1984 at Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, with the objective to promote research and development in the field of virology. It is a unique scientific body that provides platform for those associated with the characterization and management of viruses affecting Animal, Human, Fish, Insect, Plant and other living organisms. The Society also organizes National and International Conferences, Trainings, Seminars, Workshops, Invited lectures, Academia-Industry-meet, etc. The Society also recognizes the outstanding contributions of the individual members by electing them as Fellows of the society and conferring lifetime achievement awards, Springer Nature-IVS Best Publication Award and Young Scientist awards. The society has close collaboration with the World Society for Virology which is emerging as a leading world forum for addressing problem related to cross boundary viral epidemics.
IVS publishes an internationally reputed journal “VirusDisease” in collaboration with Springer Nature. The Journal was earlier (1985-2013) know as Indian Journal of Virology. The journal is Broad base in the sense that it is covering both basic and applied research on viral disease problems. Last year the journal receives the manuscripts from the researchers working in as many as 32 countries and the journal is globally distributes through the Springer Nature network. It has already been indexed in SCOPUS, EMBASE, Google Scholar, CSA, CAB International, CAB Abstracts, Global Health, IBIDS, Indian Science Abstracts, OCLC, Summon by Serial Solutions.
Society also publishes a biannual Newsletter “Virus Research News”. The objective of the Newsletter is to provide information on the latest developments in virology, news about IVS activities and other connected events. It contains interesting sections like, Research News, virology news, recently held conference, Forthcoming Publications, Awards etc. which provide a precise knowledge to readers about the IVS activities. At present we have 500 active members.
