India Co-Hub
India Co-Hub
The India-based Co-Hub is housed at JIPMER in Puducherry, where the India Chair will oversee a Program Manager, Administrative Coordinator, Lab Manager and Data Manager, dedicated to coordinating activities across Indian Clinical Research Sites.
Team
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Senbagavalli Prakash Babu (Sen)
RePORT India Program Manager
Dr. Senbagavalli Prakash Babu (Sen) is the RePORT India Program Manager. She leads the RePORT India Coordinating hub, contributing to the development and finalization of Phase II protocol, lead planning of Phase II training for all Indian CRS, developing the consortium policies and procedures, ensuring quality assurance, leading preparation of reports and responses to DBT requests, corresponding with DBT on behalf of the consortium, overseeing the DBT site budgets and finances, reviewing data summaries for quality and relevance prior to EC review and tracking administrative and scientific progress against metrics.
Komala Ezhumalai
RePORT India Data Manager
Ms. Komala is the RePORT India data Manager and co-chair of the data management working group. She collates, reviews and finalizes parent protocol and common protocol data for EC and RePORT International. She performs overall data management and lead data management working group of RePORT India, facilitates data harmonization approvals and data access.
Divya Sivaramalingam
RePORT India Finance Officer
Ms. Divya works as a Project Officer in Finance for Coordination Hub, JIPMER. She overseas and work closely with REPORT India sites for all finance-related activities She also oversees the JIPMER site-specific financial operations including procurements, Invoicing, Staffing, and submitting interim financial reports to the funding agencies DBT (India) as well as CRDF, NIH (USA).
Divya has supported the RePORT India and other TB projects in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER since 2018. She has worked as an Indirect Tax Practitioner and Tax consultant. Divya holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Finance from Pondicherry University.
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Amsaveni Sivaprakasam
RePORT India Lab Manager
Dr. Amsaveni is the Laboratory Manager for RePORT India Consortium, since April, 2018. She has been providing her support by developing Laboratory related Manuals, Case report forms and SOPs. She works more closely with the RePORT clinical research site staffs and Central TB Biorepository, National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Chennai to facilitate data and specimen collection, storage, shipment and monitoring supply chain processes as per Common Protocol and proactively troubleshoots issues that interfere with achieving compliance with the laboratory procedures.
Nancy Divya Jebaseeli
RePORT India Administrative Coordinator
Ms. Nancy Divya Jebaseeli serves as the RePORT India Coordinator. She will be primarily coordinating between RePORT Consortium & and the internal/external teams for Common Protocol activities, handling communication and also the arrangements/coordination for annual meetings.
Nancy completed her Masters in Commerce as one of the University toppers, and has 10 years of experience in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance sector, having worked with some globally reputable brands.
Nancy currently lives in Chennai, India and is passionate about food, reflected in her food blogging activities.
Facility
RePORT India coordination hub is located in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER. The team has a dedicated office space of 1800 sq. feet which is compartmentalized into administrative and financial sections. We have dedicated working space for the co-hub staff provided with individual desktops/laptops with high-speed internet connection. JIPMER site has the experience of conducting clinical trials, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional studies and studies evaluating diagnostic tests. Our site also has a dedicated 1600 sq. feet TB laboratory equipped with Bio-safety cabinets, centrifuges, Freezers and Incubators and with well-experienced staff in conducting TB research and data collection. Both the office space and the laboratory has a back-up generator facility for uninterrupted power supply. Being part of RePORT India since 2014, we have established a highly efficient clinical research unit with about 50 interdisciplinary research staffs dedicated in TB research. Our staffs have the experience of working in multi-centric projects as well as handling the sizable data and specimens.