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Dr Sukdeb Nandi graduated in veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry in 1986 from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidhyslaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal and ranked third with distinction. He did his Master Degreee and Ph. D. in Veterinay Virology from Deemed University, Indian Veterinary Research Institute in 1988 and 1992 respectively. He had been associated with teaching, training and research on Veterinary Virology in the Deemed University, Indian Veterinary research Institute for the last 16 years. He is also involved in imparting trainings on serological and molecular diagnosis of different Viral Diseases of animals. He was awarded with DBT sponsored National Biotechnology Associate-ship and carried out research on biotechnological and molecular techniques of diagnosing the diseases at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, CSIR Institute at Jadavpur, Kolkata from 1995 to 1996. he was also deputed to United Kingdom in 1998-1999 to undergo 'Transfer of Molecular Biology Training' (TOMBIT) at Institute for Animal Health, Pirbight to work on molecular aspects of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus. He has carried out research on Rabies, FMD, Sheep Pox, Goat Pox, bluetongue, Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis, classical swine fever and Parvovirus of Canine. He has visited different places in United Kingdom, Scotland and France. Presently, he is working as Senior Scientist at Centre for Animal Disease Research and Diagnosis, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, U.P. He is also the author of 'Manual of Viral Disease Investigation' – a book very much useful for the scientists, teachers, students, diagnostician and others who are working in this area. Other books in his credit are Veterinary Virlogy: at a glance, Avian Influenza of Bird flu and Rabies: a Killer disease.