Dr. Varun CN

• Pathogen Genomics and Metagenomics and Proteomics
• Viral Immunology

• Best Oral Presentation Award under Mycobacteriology (Open Category) for the work and presentation on Global proteomic profiling of Mycobacterium fortuitum, IAMM–MICROCON 2017, RIMS, Ranchi.
• Dr. S.R. Sengupta – Dr. A.M. Saoji Memorial Award for Best Paper in Immunology, IAMM–MICROCON 2018, NIMHANS, Bengaluru.
• Best Poster Award for the work on Chikungunya sequencing and analysis, NACCLER 2019, Manipal University.
• Best Oral Presentation Award at the 1st Annual Clinical Virology Summit 2024 for developing rabies virus sequencing using the Illumina platform.

National Journal Papers

• Agrawal, A., Varun, C.N, Shette, A., John, D., Raju, R., 2020. The presence of gram-negative bacteria carrying the New Delhi metallo-β-Lactamase gene on abiotic touch surfaces at a tertiary care center. Biomed Res J 7, 23.
• Basawarajappa, S.G., Rangaiah, A., Venugopal, S.J., Varun, C.N., Nagaraj, V., Padukone, S., Shankar, S.M., 2021. Clinical and Molecular facets of Dengue Virus infection from Bengaluru, South India. Nepal J Epidemiology 11, 1053–1062.
• Nagaraj, S., Ravikumar, R., Agrawal, A., Varun, C.N., Rao, M., 2022. Meningitis in a Hospitalized Trauma Patient Due to Elizabethkingia meningoseptica: An Emerging Nosocomial Pathogen. Neurology India 70, 2260–2261.
• Das, P., Varun, C.N., Ashwini, M.A., Kesavan, M., Ravi, V., Desai, A., 2025. Immunological memory in infected & exposure näive individuals one year post SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Indian J Med Res 161, 287–297.

International Journal Papers

• Agrawal, A., Ravikumar, R., Varun, C.N., Kumar, M., Chatterjee, O., Advani, J., Gopalakrishnan, L., Nagaraj, S., Mohanty, V., Patil, A.H., Sreeramulu, B., Malik, A., Pinto, S.M., Prasad, T.S.K. (2019). Global proteome profiling reveals drug-resistant traits in Elizabethkingia meningoseptica: An opportunistic nosocomial pathogen. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 23, 318–326.
• Bhaskar, S., Rastogi, A., Chattu, V.K., Adisesh, A., Thomas, P., Alvarado, N., Riahi, A.D., Varun, C.N., Pai, A.R., Barsam, S., Walker, A.H. (2020). Key strategies for clinical management and improvement of healthcare services for cardiovascular disease and diabetes patients in the COVID-19 setting: Recommendations from the REPROGRAM Consortium. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 7, 112.
• Dutta, J.B., Ashwini, M., Barman, D., Das, P., Tamuli, R., Dhanya, K., Varun, C.N., Chandel, S., Soundarya, P., Isloor, S., Mani, R.S. (2025). Integrating One Health strategies for rabies control: Insights from jackal-mediated human rabies in Northeast India. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 116, 102287.
• Kumar, M., Varun, C.N., Dey, G., Ravikumar, R., Mahadevan, A., Shankar, S.K., Prasad, T.S.K. (2018). Identification of host response in cerebral malaria patients using quantitative proteomic analysis. Proteomics Clinical Applications, 12, 1600187.
• Varun, C.N. (2024). Rabies virus sequencing using Illumina MiSeq v1. Protocols.io. https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.ewov1qbrogr2/v1
• Ramachandran, A., Ananda, A.M., Varun, C.N., K., D., Roy, A., Mani, R.S. (2025). A non-autochthonous human rabies case in the historically rabies-free Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 111, 116627.
• Varun, C.N., Raju, R., Venkataswamy, M.M., Ravi, V., Varambally, S. (2018). Procalcitonin and C-reactive protein as peripheral inflammatory markers in antipsychotic drug-free schizophrenia patients. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 11–14.
• Varun, C.N., Venkataswamy, M.M., Ravikumar, R., Nagaraju, R., Debnath, M., Varambally, S., Venkatasubramanian, G., Ravi, V. (2019). Th17 and MAIT cell-mediated inflammation in antipsychotic-free schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, 212, 47–53.