Dr. K. Athisaya Mary is currently Senior Technical Officer in the Unit of Microbiology and Immunology with 23 years of research experience in development of immunodiagnostics for filariasis and with 5 years of experience in molecular diagnosis of scrub typhus. Currently she is working on molecular diagnostics of tick typhus pathogen in human. She is also a teaching faculty for M.Sc,- Public Health Entomology programme of the centre. She has 16 and 7 awards to her credit.