Dr. Bindu Singh, the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Infectious Disease Immunology and Control (IDIC), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal. She is an enthusiastic immunologist and cell biologist, with her research focused on finding treatment strategies for Tuberculosis (TB) and TB-HIV co-infections. She completed her doctorate at the National Institute of Immunology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Later, she moved to the United States of America to pursue her post-doctoral research at Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Here, she gained expertise in Non-human primate models of infectious diseases, particularly Tuberculosis, SIV, and SARS-CoV-2, and had extensively worked on several NIH-supported projects involving non-human Primate models.