Dr Sumit Singhal

Dr Sumit Singhal born and brought up in Uttar Pradesh started his professional education by qualifying All-India Pre-entrance Veterinary Examination and acquiring B.V.Sc & A.H from NDUAT, Ayodhya where he was honored with University Merit Scholarship throughout 05 years (2000-05) as one of the best scholar. Cracking the All-India Post Graduate Examination he grabbed the Fellowship (JRF) from ICAR (2005-07) to pursue Master’s in Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, also completed his PhD (2007-10) holding the Fellowship (SRF) from project under ICAR. During his post-graduate research his thesis acclaimed the First OPU-IVF pregnancy in buffalo (2006) and proudly Dr Singhal was one the main researcher and Team member that produced First OPU-IVF live buffalo calf (2008) named Saubhagya by the then Union Minister of Agriculture.

To start his service career he joined as Veterinary Officer selected through UPPSC and served for about 2 years in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Being passionate for research and teaching he then resigned VO and joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics, at the premiere institute GADVASU, Ludhiana. He served GADVASU for about eight years upto 2021 and contributed significantly in clinics particularly large animal unit, produced ET calves of Sahiwal in University and at farmers’ doorstep for which the team was bestowed with National Level Appreciation Award by DADH, GoI. He was further engaged as an active team member in establishing OPU-IVF lab at GADVASU. Being faithful and sincere to duties he was shouldered with the responsibility of Incharge Semen Laboratory wherein he worked with full dedication resulting in tremendous increase of about 2.5 times in semen production and sale generating revolving fund tuned to about Rs 25 lakh annually consecutively for two years (2019, 2020). In year 2021, he was selected as Associated Professor in esteemed CAU, Pusa where he successfully faced the challenge and established the ET-IVF centre under RGM at Piprakothi, East Champaran, Bihar, also produced ET sahiwal calves at CAU, Pusa, Samastipur. Looking forward he then applied for Associated Professor in SAU, BASU, Patna got selected and joined in 2023. Thereafter, in 2024 he was appointed as Professor in the Department of VGO at BASU, Patna and is serving there till date.

Area of Specialization:     

• Assisted Reproductive Technology (ARTs) in bovine
• Semen Biology
• Veterinary Obstetrics

Five best Research articles:

• Singhal S, Prasad S, Prasad J K and Gupta H P. 2009. Effect of including growth factors and antioxidants in maturation medium used for in vitro culture of buffalo oocytes recovered in vivo. Animal Reproduction Science 113 (1): 44–50. NAAS rating 8.22

• Shiv Prasad, Beerendra Singh, Sumit Singhal, F A Khan, J K Prasad and H P Gupta. 2013. Production of the first viable ovum pick-up buffalo calf in India. Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction 2(2): 163-165. 0.578. (impct factor) + 6 = 6.82
• Sumit Singhal, Narinder Singh, Harpreet Singh, V S Malik and P S Brar. 2020. Curtailing the conventional dose of Folltropin-V for superstimulation and embryo recovery in Sahiwal cattle (Bos Indicus). Indian Journal of Animal Sciences. 90(11): 27-31. NAAS rating 6.29
• S Singhal, S Prasad, H Singh, M Shukla and J.K. Prasad. 2021. Effect of pre-treatment with GnRH on the efficiency of superstimulatory protocol in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science 11(2): 305-310. NAAS rating 6.23

• Taru Sharma G, Nath A, Prasad S, Singhal S, Chandra V and Saikumar G. 2020. Expression pattern of GLUT 1, 5, 8 and citrate synthase transcripts in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) preimplantation embryos produced in vitro and derived in vivo. Reproduction in Domestic Animals (00): 1-9. NAAS rating 7.86

Other publications:

Members of Professional Societies:

• Society for promotion of farm and companion animals (SPFCA)
• Indian Society for the Study of Animal Preproduction (ISSAR)
• Society of Animal Physiologist (SAPI)
• Indian Society for Buffalo Development (ISBD)

Honours and Awards:

• University Merit Scholarship throughout 05 years during B.V.Sc & A.H (2000-05)
• II^nd position in All India Veterinary College Professional Quiz Competition, 2005 at GBPUA&T, Pantangar
• Team Captain for All India Veterinary College Table Tennis, Badminton and Professional Quiz Competition – 2004-05
• BVSc & AH – First Division with distinction; MVSc – First with distinction; PhD – First
• Best Oral/Poster Presentation Award(s), First Author –
  • International Buffalo Conference, New Delhi – 2010
  • 3rd SVAHE, 2019
  • XXXII Annual Convention ISSAR – 2016
• Best Oral/Poster Presentation Award(s), Co-Author –

• XXXI convention ISSAR – 2015; XXXIII Annual Convention ISSAR – 2018; VII^th International Conference (Offline/Online) on GRISAAS-2022; ISSAR – 2024 etc.

• Young Scientist Award –
  • In: National Conference on GRISASS – 2015;
  • In: International Web-Conference NTAEBSID-2020
• One International Original Research Article – Singhal S, et al., was Nominated by International agency – Royan International Research Award for Best five Publication in field of reproductive Biomedicine and Stem Cell
• National Conferences – Rapporteurred in 3rd SVAHE (2019); Co-Chairman – ISSAR (2024)
• Distinguished Scientist Award – for outstanding contribution in the field of Veterinary Gynaecology & Obstetrics In:  IV^th International Conference in Hybrid mode SSDAT -2022
• Reviewed articles for the National/ International Journals like Indian Journal of Animal Research, Journal of Applied Animal Research, The Haryana Veterinarian, Applied Biological Research, BMC Veterinary Research, Scientific Reports, Indian Journal of Animal Reproduction etc.