Dr Aparna Mukherjee is working as Senior Scientist (Medical) and Head of Clinical Studies and Trials Unit at Development Research Division, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi. She is having an additional in-charge of Reproductive Child and Nutrition Division at ICMR. She completed her MBBS and MD (Paediatrics) from Medical College, Kolkata and she was awarded PhD (Paediatrics) by AIIMS, Delhi. Dr Mukherjee is the lead investigator and program officer of various Clinical Trials projects ongoing in ICMR. She is also program officer for Multi-Disciplinary Research Units (MRUs) and Model Rural Health Research Units (MRHRUs) scheme of Department Health Research and she is supervising 80 MRUs and 25 MRHRUs located in different medical colleges across the country. Her responsibility also includes conducting and coordinating performing various clinical trials, device and diagnostic validation studies, in addition to monitor and mentor the ongoing extramural research programs funded by ICMR. During COVID-19 pandemic, she has successfully completed Randomized control trial on convalescent plasma (PLACID Trial) for COVID-19 as Principal Investigator and the National Clinical Registry of COVID-19 and other COVID-19 related studies. Dr Mukherjee has very long research career and she worked at AIIMS Delhi in various capacity as Research Officer, Senior Research Officer and Senior Scientist. She is also a recipient of prestigious Early Career Fellow – Welcome Trust/ India Alliance. She has published more than 80 peer reviewed research articles in various reputed journals and 06 book chapters and she presented her more than 50 research work in national/international conferences on Paediatric Pulmonology, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, HIV, Clinical trial, COVID-19.