Research Areas: Diagnostics and therapeutics for economically important fish/shellfish diseases
Molecular immunology in finfish and shellfish
Surveillance and epidemiology for aquatic animal diseases
Current Research Projects:

• CRP on Vaccines & Diagnostics: Development of point-of-care diagnostic kit and vaccine against Tilapia lake virus
• All India Network Project on Fish Health
• National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases–Phase II
• All India network project on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in fisheries and livestock
• Understanding the association of gut microbiome with Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) infection in inland saline shrimp culture system
• Assessment of exotic fishes’ prevalence and their impacts on indigenous fish diversity

1. Paria, A., N. Sood, P.K. Pradhan, C.B. Kumar, A. Ahmad, U.K. Sarkar and J.K. Jena, 2025. ReportFishDisease: a GPS-enabled mobile application for supporting e-governance in aquatic animal disease management through systematic disease reporting and surveillance. Aquaculture International, 33(1): 35.
2. Paria, A., C. Muduli and G. Rathore, 2023. Understanding the molecular response of non-mammalian toll-like receptor 22 (TLR22) in amphibious air-breathing catfish, Clarias magur (Hamilton, 1822) to bacterial infection or ligand stimulation through molecular cloning and expression profiling. Gene, 866, 147351.
3. Paria, A., S.C. Yadav, D.K. Verma, A. Mishra, A. Rastogi, Ravindra, T.R. Swaminathan, K.V. Rajendran, N. Sood, and P.K. Pradhan, 2023. Susceptibility of selected tropical non-tilapine ornamental cichlids to Tilapia tilapinevirus following experimental infection. Aquaculture, 567, 739224.
4. Verma, D.K., N. Sood, A. Paria, T.R. Swaminathan, C.V. Mohan, K.V. Rajendran and P.K. Pradhan, 2022. Reassortment and evolutionary dynamics of tilapia lake virus genomic segments. Virus Research, 308, 198625.
5. Paria, A., Dev, A.K., Pradhan, P.K., Kumar, R., Rathore, G., Sood, N., 2020. Evaluation of therapeutic potential of selected antifungal chemicals and drugs against Aphanomyces invadans. Aquaculture, 529: 735643.

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• Dr. I. Karunasagar Best Ph.D. Thesis Award by Professional Fisheries Graduates Forum in the year 2022
• Dr. C.V. Kulkarni Gold Medal Ph.D. Student Research Award by ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai in the year 2021
• Best Scientist Award for the Year 2020-21 by ICAR-NBFGR, Lucknow
• Dr. Hiralal Chaudhuri Gold Medal for M.F.Sc. in Fish Pathology and Microbiology by ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai in the year 2011
• Best Fisheries Graduates of India (Rank 10) by Professional Fisheries Graduates Forum in the year 2008.