Dr. Geetha is a Microbiologist with 25 years of experience in ICMR-VCRC. She is a technical professional involved in the development of bacterial and fungal agents and their metabolites for the control of vector mosquitoes (3 patented products). She has experience in Intellectual property rights especially in patenting technologies. She has been teaching M.Sc. Medical Entomology/Diploma in Public Health Entomology /M.Sc. Public Health Entomology since 1995. She is also actively involved in the institute's Translational Research activities and one of the inventors of the technology used in the production of Cyclosporin A. She is the curator of the Microbial culture collection facility of our centre, where all bacterial and fungal strains used in our patented technologies are maintained.