Professor Arunaloke Chakrabarti

Currently the President of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). He worked consistently for the development of the discipline of Medical Mycology and laboratories in the countries under SEARO, WHO. His laboratory is recognized as ‘National Mycology Reference Laboratory’ in India, ‘WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Fungi of Medical Importance’. He is the curator of the ‘National Culture Collection of Pathogenic Fungi’. He is also working as the chair of the Asian Fungal Working Group under ISHAM, and Chair of Fungal Infection Study Forum. Published extensively in the field of Medical Mycology