Dr Soumya Basu is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher (sponsored by NIH-Allergy and Infectious Disease) at the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, US. He received his Ph.D. from VIT-Vellore India, and worked as visiting doctoral researcher at CMC-Vellore (India) with ICMR, Govt. of India sponsorship. He has more than 09 years of experience in industry and academia with expertise in clinical microbiology, translational bioinformatics, and microbial genomics. He is actively involved in collaborative projects, scientific communication and is a reviewer in many reputed journals. He currently develops translational molecular diagnostic methods against infectious diseases for resource-limited settings. He is also a member of societies like American Society of Microbiology.