Shanta Dutta

Shanta Dutta is an Indian medical researcher of gastrointestinal diseases who served ICMR- National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections (former ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases) as the director during July 2016 to November 2024. She joined the then ICMR- NICED in 1994 and researched infectious Diseases especially enteric disease (especially cholera and typhoid fever). Her research interests included prevention and control of acute diarrheal diseases, characterization of emerging pathogens, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), disease pathogenesis, developing alternative therapeutics and point of care in-vitro diagnostics for enteric infections, application of AI & Analytics.

She has been elected as a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FWAST) in 2017; National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) in 2019, Fellow of National Academy of Medical Science (FAMS) in 2023, and awarded by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) in 2014, IAAM (Indian Association of Applied Microbiologists) in 2017, ISCA (Indian Science Congress Association) in 2018, IPHA (Indian Public Health Association) in 2016 etc.

Education Shanta Dutta completed her MBBS in 1986 from the Calcutta National Medical College. In 1992, she completed her MD studies in Medical Microbiology from Kasturba Medical College, Karnataka. In 2006, she obtained a Ph.D. in medical science from Kyushu University, Japan. She also suffered from pneumonia at that time and was admitted to ICU of a private hospital. She recovered uncomplicated and was discharged from the hospital after a week. She was again positive for COVID-19 during January 2022, which continued for a week,