Night mode
| Designation | Principal Scientist |
| Discipline | Veterinary Pathology |
| Division | Aquatic Animal Health and Environment Division |
| Specialization | Shrimp and fish pathobiology, diagnostics and therapeutics |
| Phone | +91 044-24610565;Ext.108 |
| ananda.Raja@icar.org.in; anandarajars@gmail.com | |
| Google Scholar | Click Here |
| Research Gate | Click Here |
- Brief Profile
- Research areas
- Current Research Projects
- Recognition (National & International)
- Best 5 Publications during the Career
- Best 3 Publications during last 3 years
Started my career in 2001 as a veterinary assistant surgeon and served in the state government for five years in Tamil Nadu state animal husbandry department performing duties like animal treatment, husbandry, management, administrative and extension activities. I have completed my master's and Ph.D. in the major field of Veterinary Pathology during 2003 and 2016, respectively. I have joined ICAR-CIBA 2007 and have been working in Aquatic Animal Health and Environment Division. With my expertise, I have been contributing to epidemiology, pathobiology, diagnostics, antibiotic residues, and therapeutics of bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases affecting fish and shrimp in brackishwater aquaculture.
- Pathobiology of shrimp and fish diseases.
- Diagnostics and therapeutics for aquatic animal diseases.
- Nanotherapy for disease control in aquaculture
| No | Title | Funded By |
| 1 | Investigation of existing/emerging diseases in candidate brackishwater species and development of preventive/treatment strategies for effective management | ICAR |
| 2 | Consortia research platform on vaccines and diagnostics | ICAR |
| 3 | All India network project on fish health | ICAR |
- Best paper award in the “Sixth National Conference on Agricultural Scientific Tamil” organized by Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society, New Delhi during 21-22nd December, 2020.
- Best paper award in the “Fifth National Conference on Agricultural Scientific Tamil” organized by Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society, New Delhi and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during 9-10th October, 2020.
- Best paper award in the “Fourth National Agricultural Science Tamil Research Conference” organized by Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society, New Delhi at The Directorate of Research, TNFU Campus, OMR, Vaniyanchavadi, Chennai during 10-20th November 2018.
- Best paper award in the “International conference on aquatic animal health and parasitic disease-ICAAP-2017” organized by Center of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, India during 6-7th March, 2017.
- Best paper award from the “First National Conference” organized jointly by TANUVAS, Chennai and Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society, New Delhi at MVC, Chennai during 13- 14th June, 2015.
- Best paper award from an International conference on “Recent Advances in Aquaculture (RAA-2016)”, conducted by the Department of Marine Living Resources, College of Science and Technology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam- 530 003 during 16-17th December, 2016.
- Underwent an international training with National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) support on Gene Knock down technology at Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
- Awarded Junior Research Fellowship for pursuing M.V.Sc. degree programme
- Tamil Nadu state government sponsored Prize Money Award for pursuing B.V.Sc. degree.
- Awarded Gandhi Memorial Award by Tamil Nadu state government for pursuing Higher Secondary Education.
District level rank holder in Matriculation
- Ananda Raja, R., Panigrahi, A. and Sujeet Kumar. (2012). Epidemiological Investigation of Brackishwater Culture System of West Bengal. J. Appl. Aqua., 24:49-59.
- Ananda Raja, R., Jithendran, K. P., Panigrahi, A., Sundaray, J. K., Biswas, G., De, D., Ghoshal, T. K. and Sujeet Kumar. (2012). A rare case of Rhabdomyoma in milk fish, Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) associated with Iridoviral infection. Indian Vet. J., 89:105-107.
- Ananda Raja, R., Sujeet Kumar, Sundaray, J. K., De, D., Biswas, G. and Ghoshal, T. K. (2012). Hematological parameters in relation to sex, morphometric characters and incidence of white spot syndrome virus in tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon Fabricius, 1798 from Sunderban, West Bengal. Indian J. Fish., 59:169-174.
- Ananda Raja, R., Kalaimani, N., Panigrahi, A and Ponniah, A.G. (2014). Effect of season and treatment of seed with antibiotics on grow out culture of Penaeus monodon (Fabricius, 1798) at Sunderban, India. Turk J. Fish & Aquat. Sci., 14:879-885.
- Ananda Raja, R., Sridhar, R., Balachandran, C., Palanisammi, A., Ramesh, S and Nagarajan, K. (2017). Prevalence of Vibrio spp. with special reference to Vibrio parahaemolyticus in farmed penaeid shrimp Penaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) from selected districts of Tamil Nadu, India. Indian J. Fish. 64:122-128.
- Jithendran, K.P., Krishnan, A.N., Jagadeesan, V., Ananda Raja, R., Ezhil Praveena, P., Anushya, S., Amarnath, C.B and Bhuvaneswari, T. (2021). Co-infection of infectious myonecrosis virus and Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei in Penaeus vannamei farms in the east coast of India. Aquac. Res.,00: 1–10.
- Ananda Raja, R., Patil, P. K., Avunje, S., Aravind, R. P., Alavandi, S. V and Vijayan, K. K. (2020). Biosafety, withdrawal and efficacy of anti-parasitic drug emamectin benzoate in Asian Seabass (Lates calcarifer). Aquaculture., 525:735335.
- De, D., Sandeep, K.P., Kumar, S., Ananda Raja, R., Mahalakshmi, P., Sivaramakrishnan, T., Ambasankar, K and Vijayan, K.K. (2020). Effect of fish waste hydrolysate on growth, survival, health of Penaeus vannamei and plankton diversity in culture systems. Aquaculture, 524:735240