Dr Ganesh Kondabattula, Former Senior Principal Scientist, with a career, in research and development of vaccines, stands as an inspiration to many aspiring Scientists and students in Vaccinology and Immunology. He brings his 32 years rich experience from Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR).

As instructor, Ganesh Kondabattula has taught immunology to IVRI PG students and UG students of Veterinary Colleges, more than 4 years. He pursued his Ph.D. in-service at Vet College Bengaluru. His Alma Maters are IVRI Izatnagar, UAS Bidar, Vet College Anand, and The Pirbright Institute, UK, where he received postdoctoral training in Bovine Dendritic Cells.

He started his career in 1985 as Veterinary Officer against Asst Professor at the College of Vety Science and Animal Husbandry, GAU, Anand, and then pursued his education and research, 1985 -1987 as M.V.Sc.Scholar in Veterinary Immunology and Worked, 1987 -1988 as Technical Officer, Monoclonal Antibodies at the PGET Centre, IVRI, Izatnagar. After a brief service as Veterinary Assistant Surgeon at the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Hyderabad, he joined, as Instructor & Head, Division of Veterinary Microbiology, Veterinary College, UAS, Bidar (1988 - 1992). He then moved to work as Scientist, Veterinary Microbiology (1992-1998) in I.C.A.R. Initially 3 years he worked at Rinderpest and Allied Diseases laboratory, Division of Virology, IVRI, Mukteswar and continued as Scientist Senior Scale (1998-2002) at FMD Vaccine Production, QC and QA Unit, IVRI, Bangalore, and promoted to Senior Scientist (2002- 2011) and further as Principal Scientist (2012- till retirement).

Since 1994, Dr. Ganesh started working in FMD vaccine production unit and involved in FMD Vaccine Production, Quality Control and Assurance at IVRI Bangalore. All the work under the FMD Vaccine Production, Quality Control and Assurance projects is a service oriented and research interests are continued by working in collaborative research projects on FMD virus vaccinology. He has developed vaccine adjuvants indigenously and studied their adjuvanticity, and involved actively with the Transfer of Technology generating revenue to IVRI.