International Conference on Reproductive Health: Innovations, Integration, and

Implementation
&
34th Annual Meeting of the
Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility
(ISSRF-2024)
Organized by
Medical Health & Research Institute, Hyderabad
at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, IICT, Hyderabad
23rd– 25th February, 2024
Scientific Programme
23rd February 2024, Friday
09:00 AM Inaugural Ceremony
Chief Guest Guest of Honor Guest of Honor

Dr. Tamilisai Dr. Shantha Kumari

Soundararajan
Governor, Telangana
Padmabhushan Prof. G. P. Talwar
Docteur es Sciences, DSc (hc), FAMS, FASc, Honorary Treasurer
FNASc, FNA, FRCOG (London), FWAAS FIGO 2021 to date
Director Research
Talwar Research Foundation

Dr. R. S. Sharma Dr. Roya Rozati

Prof. N. K. Lohiya
Secretary-ISSRF Organizing Secretary-ISSRF-2024
President-ISSRF
Lifetime Achievement Awardees

Padmashri Dr. Balram

Dr. Prof. (Col) Dr. Nandita Dr. Dheer Singh
Bhargava
Pankaj Talwar Palshetkar Director &
Chief, Cardiothoracic Centre
AIIMS, New Delhi VSM, Honorary Senior Medical Director Vice-Chancellor
Former DG ICMR & Consultant & Professor Bloom IVF Group NDRI, Karnal
Secretary DHR Pacific Medical College & President ISAR
Hospital Udaipur

Keynote Address-I Balaram Bhargava, AIIMS, New Delhi

10:00 am Indigenous Indian vaccine : The story of human compassion
and cooperation

Shantha Kumari, Honorary Treasurer, FIGO

10:30 am Social determinants in Maternal health & infertility

Tea Break
11:00 am
 Founder President Dr. T. C. Anand Kumar Memorial Oration
Chairpersons

Dr. T. C. Anand Kumar

(18 Jan., 1936 to 26 Jan., 2010)
G. Taru Sharma Suresh Pothani K. Anand Kumar
NIAB, Hyderabad NARFBR, Hyderabad Bengaluru

11:15 AM Oration-I Geetanjali Sachdeva, NIRRCH, Mumbai

Extra Alarmins in the Uterine Fluid: An Alarm for Immune Cells
in the Uterus

Physiology of Reproduction
rd
23 February, 2024 Chairpersons
Friday
Session – I

Ajit Kumar Saxena Malini Laloraya Kaiser Jamil

AIIMS, Patna RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram MHRC, Hyderabad

11:45 AM IT-1 Rita Singh, Delhi University, New Delhi

Role of SRC family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases in female fertility

Ashutosh Halder, AIIMS, New Delhi

12:05 PM IT-2
Biological Basis of Skewed Sex Ratio

Venkanna Bhanothu, ICMR-NIRRCH, Mumbai

12:25 PM IT-3 Evaluation of different methods used in the detection of Female
Genital Tuberculosis (FGTB) and gene polymorphism

R. S. Sharma, Sharda University, Noida

12:45 PM IT-4 The reproductive microbiome: An emerging driver of reproductive
health

01:05 PM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

01:10 PM –2:00 PM Lunch Break
Advancements in Understanding Male and Female Reproductive
Physiology -I
Chairpersons
23rd February, 2024
Friday

Session – II

Deepa Bhartiya Roya Rozati P. P. Reddy

Epigeneres Biotech Pvt. Ltd. Mahavir Hospital,
MHRT, Hyderabad
Mumbai Hyderabad
2:00 PM Pankaj Talwar, Medical Services Birla Fertility, Delhi
Keynote Fertility Preservation
Addres -II
 2:30 PM G. Taru Sharma, DBT-NIAB, Hyderabad
IT-5 Enriching scaffolds with animal stem cells for regenerative therapies

2:50 PM Peter-Chinedu-Agu, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria.

An in-vivo and in-silico investigation found that Cucumeropsis mannii
IT-6 seed oil mitigates transgenerational sperm decline and hormonal
disruptions in the F1 lineage of F0 male rats exposed to Bisphenol a.

3:10 PM Sujata Kar, Khar Clinic Hospital Pvt. Ltd., Bhubaneshwar

IT-7 Troubleshooting in ART-New Fronteirs

3:30 PM A. V. N. Sivakumar, College of Veterinary Sciences, Tirupathi

Kisspeptin suppress apoptosis to promote ovarian follicular
IT-8 development in vitro in sheep

3:50 PM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

3:55PM Tea Break

Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Kamboj Memorial Oration

Chairpersons

Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Kamboj

(12 Nov., 1944 to 8 Jan.,2015) Balram Bhargava Bela Kamboj Mala Kamboj
AIIMS, New Delhi Lucknow PGDIS, Rohtak

4:10 PM Oration-II Seema Rai, GGV, Bilaspur

Linkage between Melatonin and Clock Genes in
Reproductive Health Management

Advancements in Understanding Male and Female

23rd February, 2024 Friday Reproductive Physiology of Reproduction -II
Session – III
Chairpersons

Mukesh Gupta Ch Venkata Ramna Devi

G. Sai Kumar Osmania University, Hyderabad
NARFBR, Hyderabad
IVRI, Izatnagar
4:40 PM Deepa Bhartiya, Epigeneres Biotech Pvt Ltd, Mumbai
Why Lab-Developed Tests for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
IT-9
(OvaSure) and Endometrial Receptivity Analysis (ERA) Failed in the
Clinics?
5:00 PM Ajit Kumar Saxena, AIIMS, Patna
IT-10 Syp3 gene mutation: Tissue specific genetic heterogenicity in
Azoospermia.

5:20 PM Gyanendra Singh, NIOH, Ahmedabad

IT-11 Biochanin A, phloretin, and coenzyme Q10 alleviate chromium and
arsenic-induced neurotoxicity in Swiss albino mice via Nrf2/HO-1/
dsNQO1 signaling
 5:40 PM Vikrant Madhukar Bhor, ICMR-NIRRCH, Mumbai
Delineating the interplay of the host vaginal milieu with pathogen and
IT-12 commensal membrane vesicles: Implications for Reproductive Health.
6:00 PM Pawan K. Dubey, BHU, Varanasi
Variants in exon 2 of MED12 gene causes uterine leiomyoma’s through
IT-13 over-expression of MMP-9 of ECM pathway

6:20 PM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

6:25 PM Free communications

Judges: V Usha Rani, Reeta Agarwal, Geetanjali Sachdeva
07.00 PM Cultural Program Followed by Dinner

24th February, 2024 (Saturday)

Prof. S. S. Guraya Memorial Oration

Chairpersons

Prof. S. S. Guraya
(12 Oct, 1930 to 8 July, 2012)
N. K. Lohiya Rita Singh
University of Rajasthan Delhi University, New Surinder Guraya
Jaipur Delhi USA

9:00 AM Oration–III Samir Patra, NITR, Rourkela

Epigenetics of Prostate Cancer: Alteration of Chromatin
Modifications and Aberrant Signaling Induce Tumor Development
and Cancer Progression

PCOS and Endometriosis

24th February, 2024 Chairpersons
Saturday
Session – IV

P. Balamba Aleem Ahmed Khan

Osmania Medical S. Vjayanthi
KIIMS Hospital, Hyderabad DCMS, Hyderabad
College, Hyderabad
Sweta Gupta, IVF Max , Delhi/NCR
9:30 AM Artificial Intelligence (AI) In the Optimization and Personalization of
IT-14
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) outcomes

Neena Malhotra, AIIMS, New Delhi

9:50 AM IT-15 Adenomyosis-Latest trends and management

Amlan Kanti Ray, Diverse Genomics PVt. Ltd., Kolkata

10:10 AM IT-16 Social Freezing: conformity, reproducibility, predictability

IT-17 Hari Anupama, Mallareddy College for Women, Hyderabad

10:30 AM Challenges of Ovulation Induction and PCOS
10:50 AM Usha Rani, MIMS, Vikarabad
IT-18 Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL): Defining, Understanding Epidemiology,
and Assessing Prognosis

11:10 AM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

11:15 AM Tea Break

Reproductive Health Technologies

24thFebruary, 2024
Saturday Chairpersons

Session –V

Arun Chougule Neena Malhotra R. S. Sharma

Swasthya Kalyan Group AIIMS, New Delhi Sharda University
Jaipur Noida

11:30 AM Keynote Nandita Palshetkar, Bloom IVF

Address-II Reproductive ageing

Pradeep Kumar G, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

12:00 PM Regulation of gene expression by miR-34c and miR-449a during
IT-19
the onset of spermatogenesis in the mouse testis

Ch. Venkata Ramana Devi, Osmania University, Hyderabad

12:20 PM IT-20 Immunology of pregnancy and role of polymorphisms in 3’ UTR of
HLA-G gene in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL)
Vandana Hegde, Hegde Fertility, Hyderabad
12:40 PM IT-21 Preimplantation Genetic Testing

1:00 PM Charulata Chatterjee, Embryologist

IT-22 Artificial Intelligence -A bright side for IVF

1: 20 PM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

1:25 PM Lunch Break

Prof. G. P. Talwar Gold Medal Oration

24thFebruary, 2024 Chairpersons

Saturday

Oration–IV

G. P. Talwar Srinivas Reddy

Talwar Research Foundation Geetanjali Sachdeva
IICT, Hyderabad
New Delhi NIRRCH, Mumbai

Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, AIIMS, New Delhi

2:00 PM Oration-IV Mitigating inflammatory bone loss in post-menopausal
osteoporosis via targeting the IL-9 producing
osteoclastogenic Th9 cells
 ART and IVF
24thFebruary, 2024
Saturday Chairpersons

Session –VI

Surender Sharma Seema Rai Sweta Gupta

University of Texas GGV, Bilaspur IVF Max , Delhi
Medical Branch,
Galveston
Suneeta Mittal, Fortis, Gurugram
2:30 PM Role of Robotic Surgery in Reproductive Health
IT-23

Aleem Ahmed Khan, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad

2:50 PM IT-24 Mitochondrial Dynamics in Endometriosis-An approach for Molecular
Targeted therapy
Varsha Khandelwal, Dhanrajseth Memorial Hospital, Itarasi
3:10 PM IT-25 Etiology and pathophysiology of PCOS

Tripura Sundari, KIIMS Hospitals, Hyderabad

3:30 PM POI- the slowly increasing incidence, hampering fertility
IT-26

3:50 PM Renuka Suravajhala, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Kerala

IT-27 Computational Approaches to Develop Potential Markers and
Phytochemical Drugs for Treatment of Prostate Cancer

4:10 PM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

4:15 PM Tea Break

Reproductive Health
Chairpersons

24th February, 2024

Saturday
Session – VII
Tripura Sundari
Chandana Haldar P. K. Mishra KIIMS Hospitals, Hyderabad
BHU, Varanasi NIREH, Bhopal
4:30 PM Sarbani Mukherjee, ICMR-NIRRCH, Mumbai
IT-28 Dr. Subhas Mukherjee: The unsung hero of IVF

4:50 PM Rooma Sinha, Apollo Group of Hospitals, Hyderabad

IT-29 Role of robotic surgery in fertility enhancement in women

5:10 PM Sravanthi Gadhiraju, Sravanthi Hospitals, Secunderabad

IT-30 Surgical Management of endometriosis

5:30 PM Surabhi Gupta, AIIMS, New Delhi

Embryo-Uterine Cross-talk for Implantation & beyond: Role of Exosomes
IT-31

5:50 PM Taruna Madan, ICMR, New Delhi

IT-32 Restoration of angiogenic balance and inflammatory response by rfhSP-D
and PVF-VEGF in the LPS challenged trophoblast cells and placental
explants derived from murine model of preeclampsia
 6:10 PM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

6:15 PM-7:00 PM Free Communications

Shobha, Padmaja, Jasmine
06:15 PM – 06:40 PM ISSRF-General Body Meeting

25th February, 2024 (Sunday)

Prof. N. R. Moudgal Memorial Oration

Chairpersons

Sugu
Prof. N. R. Moudgal
th th
(4 March, 1931 – 9 May, 2011)
Hari Anupama Ashutosh Halder Sugunakar Vuree
MCW, Hyderabad AIIMS, New Delhi Genepowerx, Hyderabad

9:00 AM Oration-V Rupasri Ain, IICB, Kolkata

Decoding cell-cell communication during spiral artery remodeling

Fertility Preservation & ART

25thFebruary, 2024 Sunday
Chairpersons

Session – VIII

Suneeta Mittal Pradeep Kumar G. Ch. Mohan Rao

RGCB, Thiruvananthpuram CCMB, Hyderabad
Fortis, Gurugram
Surendra Sharma, University of Texas Medical Branch,
9.30 AM Galveston, Texas, USA.
Keynote Address- IV Alzheimer’s Etiology in Preeclampsia: Lessons for
“Pregnancy and Beyond” Health Risks

Arun Chougule, Swasthya Kalyan Group, Jaipur

10.00 AM IT-33 Cancer Incidence In India With Particular Reference To Cancer Of
Reproductive Organs

Malini Laloraya, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

10.20 AM
Recurrent Implantation Failure (RIF) – Requirement of better
IT-34 biomarker signatures through endometrial organoids?

Narmada Katakam, Genesis Fertility and Laparoscopy Centre

10:40 AM
IT-35 Is there a role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in infertility?

11:00 AM Souvik Dey, Manipal, Karnataka

IT-36 Deciphering the Contribution of FTO in Mammalian
Spermatogenesis

11.20 AM Concluding remarks by Chairpersons

11:25 AM Tea Break

 Prof. L. S. Ramaswami Memorial Oration
Chairpersons

Prof. L. S. Ramaswami
(1 Jan, 1907 to 18 May,1987) Pavneesh Madan
Dheer Singh Sujata Kar
NDRI, Karnal University of Guelph, Ontario Khar Clinic, Bhubaneshwar

11:40 AM Arvind Gupta, Rajasthan Hospital, Jaipur

Oration-VI Estimation of Prevalence of Erectile Dysfunction &
Relationship between Platelet and Lymphocyte ratio
and Severity of Erectile Dysfunction in Pre-Diabetes
at Tertiary Care Centre
12:10 PM Chairper sons Shruthi Manvikar, Ferticare IVF Assist
IT-37 PCOS related Infertility

12:30 PM IT-38 Priyanka Parte, ICMR-NIRRCH, Mumbai

Chemotaxis as mechanism for sorting good quality sperm for IVF/ICSI

Jayesh Amin, Clinical director-Nova IVF wings Group

12:50 PM Role of Immunogenetics in ART
IT-39

Aruna Suman,Govt. Medical College Jagitial, Telangana

1:10 PM Impact of Endocrine disruptors in Reproductive Health
IT-40

1:30 PM Concluding Remarks By Chairpersons

01:30PM Lunch Break

Young Scientist Awards
Chairpersons

25th February, 2024

Sunday

Session – IX
V. M. Katoch Taruna Madan A. S. Ansari
JIPMER, Puducherry ICMR, New Delhi University of Rajasthan,
Jaipur
Founder President Dr. T. C. Anand Kumar Young Scientist Awards
2:20 PM
AW-1 Nilendu Paul
Transcriptomic profiling of Buffalo Spermatozoa

AW-2 Ashutosh N. Pandey

Role of reactive Oxygen Species during Meiotic resumption from Diplotene
arrest in Rat Oocytes

2:50 PM Prof. G. P. Talwar Young Scientist Awards

AW-3 Sudipti Arora
Empowering rural women through sustainable menstrual hygeine practices
for enhanced Reproductive health in Aandhi Village, Rajasthan
 AW-4 Kasturi Ganguly
Therapeutic implication of activated retinoic acid -Inducible gene-I(RIG-
I)pathway against Prostate cancer

3:20 PM Prof. N. R. Moudgal Young Scientist Awards

AW-5 Jitendra Kumar

Role of melatonin in regulation of reproductive health

Aniket G. Patankar
AW-6
Significance of testis specific histone 2b (tsh2b) in meiosis and
sperm function

3:50 PM Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Kamboj Young Scientist Awards

AW-7 Nirlipta Swain
Proteomic Signatures Of Hypoxia- Induced Spermatozoa Is Indicative Of
Aberrant Cellular And Mitochondrial Redox Circuitry In Spermatozoa
Using Unilateral Varicocele Infertile Men As A Model Of Oxidative Stress
AW-8 Pooja Ratre
Design, development, and demonstration of a triad-based nanobiosenor
for the early detection of environmental-associated breast cancer

4:20 PM Prof. S. S. Guraya Young Scientist Awards

AW-9 Sriti Pandey

Modulatory role of progesterone on uterine epithelial cell-embryo
interaction and in vitro embryo production in buffalo

AW-10 Shirsha Mondal

Long-term Dietary Administration of Diethyl Phthalate Challenges Male
Murine Reproduction

4:50 PM Valedictory Function