India Co-Hub

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Shivakumar is a clinician researcher focused on TB infection transmission and its progression to disease. After graduating in medicine from Armenia, he underwent clinical training in India to obtain his medical license. He then worked as junior doctor and medical officer in both urban and rural hospital settings in India. Dr. Shivakumar gained experience as a study clinician and coordinator at the National Institute for Research in TB (NIRT) in Chennai for the RePORT India C-TRIUMPH parent protocol and later became the overall coordinator for the study. Dr. Shivakumar is the Protocol Specialist for the RePORT India Phase II Common Protocol with ~70% effort dedicated to this role.