Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of the scientific advisory group of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by Union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of circulating strains of Covid-19 in India.

Jameel is currently the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University.