1. 1.Merit Scholarship at U.G. Level
2. Dr.Dharmananda Mishra Memorial Gold Medal
3. Dr.Brundaban Samal Memorial Gold Medal
4. Dr.Ganeswar Biswal Memorial Gold Medal
5. 5.Moxel Merit award for Academic Excellence by Alembic Ltd.Veterinary Division
6. Registered Veterinary Life member of Odisha Veterinary Council
7. Registered Veterinary Practitioner of Veterinary Council of India
8. Life Member of Laboratory Animal Scientist’s Association.
9. Life Member of Laboratory Animal Veterinarian’s Association
10. CPCSEA Nominee
11. Executive Body Member of Laboratory Animal Veterinarrian’s Association

12. Representative of Member Organisation :LASA in AAALAC-International (Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International)

Laboratory animal Science & Medicine, Animal models of different diseases

The research includes
1. welfare, care, breeding and health monitoring of laboratory animals used in
experimental purpose.
2. Development and characterization of models of animal diseases
3. Refinement of surgical models of diseases
4. Acute and Sub-acute toxicological evaluation of products in animal models

1. Chandana, M and Anand, A and Ghosh, S and Das, R and Beura, S and Jena,S and Suryawanshi, AR and Padmanaban, G and Nagaraj, VA (2022) Malaria parasite heme biosynthesis promotes and griseofulvin protects against cerebral malaria in mice. In: Nature Communications, 13 (1).
2. Chawla S, Jena S, Venkatsan B, Mahara K, Sahu N. Clinical, pathological, and molecular investigation of Mycoplasma pulmonis-induced murine respiratory mycoplasmosis in a rat
(Rattus norvegicus) colony. Vet World. 2017 Nov; 10(11):1378-1382. doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2017.1378-1382. Epub 2017 Nov 25. PMID: 29263602; PMCID: PMC5732346.
3.  S Jena, S Parthasarathy, S Chawla ; Identification and morphological characterisation of spiny rat louse (Polyplax spinulosa) from a laboratory rat ;J. Entomol. Zool. Stud. India 5 (6), 82-84
4. Devi TB, Jena S, Patra B, Singh KD, Chawla S, Raina V, Koijam AS, Parida A, Rajashekar Y. Acute and sub-acute toxicity evaluation of dihydro-p-coumaric acid isolated from leaves of Tithonia diversifolia Hemsl. A. Gray in BALB/c mice. Front Pharmacol. 2022 Nov 23;13:1055765. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1055765. PMID: 36506583; PMCID: PMC9727178.
5. Singh KD, Jena S, Patra B, Devi TB, Chawla S, Bharali R, Parida A, Mukherjee PK, Rajashekar Y. Safety evaluation of enriched fraction from leaves of Dillenia indica L. in BALB/c mice. Toxicol Rep. 2022 May 17;9:1142-1149. doi: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2022.05.007. PMID: 36518394; PMCID: PMC9742871.
6. Chawla, Saurabh and Sarita Jena. “Incidence of Cystic Liver Caused by Cysticercus fasciolaris in Laboratory Rat.” Journal of Animal Research 5 (2015): 377-379.
7. Chawla, Saurabh et al. “Different Treatment Regimen for Eradication of Pinworm (Syphacia obvelata) Infection in Mice Colony.” Journal of Animal Research 5 (2015): 321-324.

8. Jena, S., Chawla, S. (2021). The Anatomy, Physiology, and Husbandry of Laboratory Rabbit. In: Nagarajan, P., Gudde, R., Srinivasan, R. (eds) Essentials of Laboratory Animal Science:
Principles and Practices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0987-9_10
9. Chawla, S., Jena, S. (2021). The Anatomy and Physiology of Laboratory Rat. In: Nagarajan, P., Gudde, R., Srinivasan, R. (eds) Essentials of Laboratory Animal Science: Principles and
Practices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0987-9_9
10. Jena, S., Chawla, S. (2021). The Anatomy and Physiology of Laboratory Mouse. In: Nagarajan, P., Gudde, R., Srinivasan, R. (eds) Essentials of Laboratory Animal Science: Principles and
Practices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0987-9_8
11. Chawla, S., Jena, S., Nayak, S. (2021). The Laboratory Guinea Pig. In: Nagarajan, P., Gudde, R., Srinivasan, R. (eds) Essentials of Laboratory Animal Science: Principles and Practices.
Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0987-9_11
12. Sasmita Samal, Debyashreeta Barik, Sarita Jena et al. Post craniotomy pain management in Copenhagen rat by intraperitoneal or oral dosage of Tramadol: A comparative evaluation, 16
December 2022, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2357613/v1]
13. Chauhan, N. R., Kundu, S., Bal, R., Chattopadhyay, D., Mehto, S., Sahu, R., … & Chauhan, S. (2022). Transgenic Mouse Models Establish a Protective Role of Type 1 IFN Response in
SARS-CoV-2 infection-related Immunopathology. bioRxiv, 2022-12.
14. Harikrishnan, V., Jena, S., Yadav, S., Kohale, K., Kumar, J. M., & Nagarajan, P. (2021). What Happened to the Laboratory Animals during COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown? India Answers.

Animal House Technician:
Biswajit Patra
Subrat Nayak