Indira Nath

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Indira Nath (born January 14, 1938 ) is an Indian immunologist . She made scientific contributions to immune tolerance and nerve damage in leprosy and its pathogen, Mycobacterium Leprae . Nath is a specialist in the field of pathology , immunology and infectious diseases .

Career

Nath studied medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). After graduating, she worked on a Nuffield Fellowship with John Turk and RJW Rees in London.

Since she did not want to contribute to the emigration of well-educated people from India , she returned to India to the AIIMS, where she studied immunological aspects of leprosy with Gursaran Talwar.

research

In her research, Nath deals, among other things, with the immune response and nerve damage in the event of an infection with Mycobacterium Leprae at the cellular level, as well as with markers to determine the viability of M. leprae . Nath has published more than 120 articles in specialist journals. She has been awarded numerous prizes.

Year of award Name of the award Awarding organization
1981 JALMA Trust Oration ICMR
1983 Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award Indian government
1984 Kshanika Award ICMR
1987 1st Nitya Anand Endowment Lecture Award INSA
1988 Clayton Memorial Lecture Award
1990 Om Prakash Bhasin Award
1994 Basanti Devi Amir Chand Award ICMR
1995 Cochrane Research Award Government of Great Britain
1995 RD Birla Award
1999 Padmashri Indian government
2002 Women in Science L'Oreal UNESCO
2003 Chevalier Ordre National du Merite French government
2003 Silver banner Tuscany, Italy

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karen Birmingham: Indira Nath . In: Nature Medicine . tape 8 , no. 6 , June 1, 2002, ISSN  1546-170X , p. 545-545 , doi : 10.1038 / nm0602-545 ( nature.com [accessed December 16, 2019]).
  2. ^ INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ In Conversation - Interview with Dr. Indira Nath . In: SR Vol.53 (06) [June 2016] . June 2016, ISSN  0036-8512 ( res.in [accessed December 16, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Nath, Indira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1938