The National Institute of Immunology (NII) is an autonomous institution supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The Institute is committed to advanced research addressing the basic mechanisms involved in body's defence, host-pathogen interactions and related areas with a view to contribute to the creation of an internationally competitive intellectual knowledge base as a sustainable source of innovative futuristic modalities of potential use in health care.

The National Institute of Immunology (NII) is an autonomous institution supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The Institute is committed to advanced research addressing the basic mechanisms involved in body's defence, host-pathogen interactions and related areas with a view to contribute to the creation of an internationally competitive intellectual knowledge base as a sustainable source of innovative futuristic modalities of potential use in health care.

Research Resourses-
Small Animal Facility:
The Small Animal Facility of the Institute procures, breeds and supplies defined strains of mice and rats to the scientific community of the institute. Apart from the breeding and maintenance of defined strains of mice, undefined stocks of other laboratory animals are also raised. The propagation of all defined strains is done in a three-tier system. Mice in foundation stock consist of pedigreed identified pairs which are reared in restricted area under barrier facility. The animals from this colony provide breeding pairs for the pedigreed expansion stock colony for expansion purpose as well as replace pairs in foundation stock. The animals in production stock consist of randomly mixed animals from fo

Research Resourses-
Small Animal Facility:
The Small Animal Facility of the Institute procures, breeds and supplies defined strains of mice and rats to the scientific community of the institute. Apart from the breeding and maintenance of defined strains of mice, undefined stocks of other laboratory animals are also raised. The propagation of all defined strains is done in a three-tier system. Mice in foundation stock consist of pedigreed identified pairs which are reared in restricted area under barrier facility. The animals from this colony provide breeding pairs for the pedigreed expansion stock colony for expansion purpose as well as replace pairs in foundation stock. The animals in production stock consist of randomly mixed animals from foundation as well as expansion colonies which are raised in the conventional manner. The selection of sibling pairs at these three levels is done in such a way that all the descendants of each strain can be traced to a common ancestral breeding pair within seven generations of inbreeding. In addition to the above, non-pedigreed stocks are also bred without maintaining their pedigree records for use in experimentation.
Bioinformatics, Library & Documentation:
The Bioinformatics Center (BIC) at NII serves as an information resource and state of the art computational facility for researchers both in NII and outside in the field of molecular biology and immunology. The center is also engaged in advanced research in the area of computational and structural biology. A major activity of the center has been development of databases and softwares which permit correlating the sequence and structural features of various biosynthetic proteins to the chemical structure of the metabolites they synthesize. Softwares have also been developed for structure based prediction of protein-peptide interactions and analysis of regulatory motifs. The center is associated with several collaborative projects with other experimental groups at NII as well as other institutes in India. These projects relate to work on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and various other aspects of immunity and infection. The center has contributed to the discovery of new biosynthetic pathways and elucidation of novel mechanisms of immune recognition.

Plateform Technologies-
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance:
Mass Spectrometry:
X-ray Crystallography:
DNA Sequencing:
Peptide Synthesis And Sequencing:
Electron Microscopy:
Confocal Microscopy:
Confocal microscopy systems at different levels of sophistication are available, from basic laser source microscopy and image analysis platforms to an instrument capable of multi-colour FRET and FRAP analyses
Flow Cytometry:
The Institute has flow cytometric analysers as well as a high-speed sorter for multi-colour cytofluorographic analysis and cell purification.
Mouse Genetic Engineering:
The Institute has mouse embryo manipulation capabilities, allowing the generation of transgenic mouse strains

Prof. Avadhesha Surolia, Director
Prof. Sandip K Basu
Dr. Dinakar M Salunke
Dr. Vineeta Bal
Dr. Janendra K Batra
Dr. Lalit C Garg
Dr. Satish K Gupta
Dr. Om Singh
Dr. Satyajit Rath
Dr. Chandrima Shaha
Dr. Sher Ali

Prof. Avadhesha Surolia, Director
Prof. Sandip K Basu
Dr. Dinakar M Salunke
Dr. Vineeta Bal
Dr. Janendra K Batra
Dr. Lalit C Garg
Dr. Satish K Gupta
Dr. Om Singh
Dr. Satyajit Rath
Dr. Chandrima Shaha
Dr. Sher Ali
Dr. Akhil C Banerjea
Dr. Anna George
Dr. Subeer S Majumdar
Dr. Amitabha Mukhopadhyay
Dr. Asok Mukhopadhyay
Dr. Amulya K Panda
Dr. Rajni Rani
Dr. Anil K Suri
Dr. Ram A Vishwakarma
Dr. Sudhanshu Vrati
Dr. Sangeeta Bhaskar
Dr. Ravi Dhar
Dr. Ramesh C Juyal
Dr. Kanwaljeet Kaur
Dr. Rahul Pal
Dr. Vidya Raghunathan
Dr. Rajendra P Roy
Dr. Kakoli Ghoshal
Dr. Mohd. Ayub Qadri
Dr. Debasisa Mohanty
Dr. Pramod Kumar Upadhyay
Dr. Rajesh S. Gokhale
Dr. Madhulika Srivastva
Dr. Devinder Sehgal
Dr. Pushkar Sharma
Dr. Vinay Kumar Nandicoori
Dr. Sagar Sengupta
Dr. Apurba Kumar Sau
Dr. Sandeep Saxena
Dr. Monica Sundd
Dr. Srinivasa-Gopalan Sampathkumar
Dr. Agam P. Singh
Dr. Sanjeev Das
Dr. Bichitra K. Biswal
Dr. Arnab Mukhopadhyay
Dr. Sarika Gupta
Dr. Prafullakumar Tailor
Dr. Soumen Basak
Dr. Anil Kumar