Subrat Kumar Panda Explained

Subrat Kumar Panda
Birth Date:1954 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Odisha, India
Nationality:Indian
Known For:Studies on Viral hepatitis

Subrat Kumar Panda (born 1954) is an Indian virologist, professor and Head Department of Pathology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.[1] [2] Known for his researches in viral hepatitis,[3] Panda is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,[4] Indian National Science Academy[5] and the National Academy of Medical Sciences.[6] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1995.[7]

Biography

Born on 18 November 1954 in the Indian state of Odisha, S. K. Panda graduated in medicine from SCB Medical College, Cuttack in 1977 and earned an MD from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi in 1981.[8] Subsequently, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of Arie Zuckerman of London School of Tropical Medicine which he completed in 1987. Returning to India, he joined AIIMS Delhi as a member of faculty at the department of pathology and serves as the professor and head of the department.[9]

Panda is married to Gita Satpathy, a professor of microbiology at AIIMS, Delhi and the family lives in AIIMS campus.[10]

Legacy

Panda, whose researches covered the fields of Molecular Virology and Liver Pathology, is known to have contributed to the wider understanding of viral hepatitis.[11] He carried out extensive researches on various types of hepatitis virus such a B, C and E and elucidated the replication and transcription processes of Hepatitis E virus.[12] These studies, based on Rhesus monkeys, demonstrated the relationship of the virus with liver diseases and protracted viremia. His researches have been documented by way of several articles;[13] and online article repositories like Google Scholar[14] and ResearchGate have listed a number of them.[15]

Awards and honors

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1995.[16] Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow the same year, followed by the National Academy of Medical Sciences[17] and the Indian National Science Academy in 2010.[18]

Selected bibliography

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 70 apply for AIIMS director's post . 23 September 2013 . The Hindu.
  2. Web site: Faculty . 2017 . AIIMS Delhi.
  3. Web site: Brief Profile of the Awardee . 2017 . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
  4. Web site: Fellow profile . 2017 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  5. Web site: Indian fellow - S K Panda . 2017 . Indian National Science Academy .
  6. Web site: NAMS Fellows . 2017 . National Academy of Medical Sciences.
  7. Web site: View Bhatnagar Awardees . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2016 . 12 November 2016.
  8. Web site: Expert Profile . 2017 . ND TV.
  9. Web site: Faculty profile . 2017 . AIIMS Delhi.
  10. Web site: At AIIMS, docs lose sleep as burglars strike at will . 16 December 2008 . Delhi Talking.
  11. Web site: Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . 71 . 1999.
  12. Web site: Summary of achievements . 2017 . Science and Engineering Research Board.
  13. Web site: Browse by Fellow . 2017 . Indian Academy of Sciences.
  14. Web site: On Google Scholar . 2017 . Google Scholar.
  15. Web site: On ResearchGate . 2017 .
  16. Web site: Medical Sciences . 2017 . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130224074105/http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm . 2013-02-24 .
  17. Web site: State wise fellows list . 2017 . National Academy of Medical Sciences.
  18. Web site: INSA Year Book 2016 . 2017 . Indian National Science Academy.

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