KGMU profs, students felicitated for research

KGMU profs, students felicitated for research

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Lucknow: 21.11.2021

As many as 21 faculty members and five students were felicitated with ‘eminence in research’ awards at the Annual Research Showcase 2021 organised by KGMU’s research cell on Sunday.

The Prof Dhavendra Kumar Gold Medal for Young Investigators went to Prof Smriti Agrawal in gynaecology and Dr Siddharth Agarwal in ophthalmology for their innovation and research.

The best PhD thesis award was bagged by Dr Shilpa Trivedi from the oral and maxillofacial surgery department for her work on isolating stem cells from dental tissues.

Prof Abhijit Chandra from surgical gastroenterology was awarded for the best surgical clinical paper for developing novel innovative techniques for management of rectal prolapse.

The award for best preclinical paper was given to Prof Shailendra Saxena for finding novel application of sedative drug belladonna in Japanese Encephalitis management.

Prof Geeta Yadav from the pathology department got the best para-clinical award for her work on a strong activation immune system in Covid patients. Prof Hardeep Singh Malhotra from neurology got the best clinical medical paper award for his work on neurological impact of tuberculosis.

Among PG students, PhD scholars and MSc nursing students, Dr Deep Chakrabarti from radiotherapy was awarded for the best paper. In UG category, Ahmad Ozair was awarded for his work on safety and efficacy of antibiotics in management of irritable bowel syndrome.

UG students Kausal Singh, Sujeet Rao and Shubham Trivedi were facilitated with ICMR studentship award.

The intramural research grant proposal award went to Dr Parul Jain, Dr Suruchi Shukla, Dr Arpita Bhriguvanshi, Dr Suresh Chand, Dr Satyendra Kumar Singh and Dr Ayush Shukla.

Vice-chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Prof Bipin Puri felicitated Prof UC Chaturvedi (microbiology), Prof Shally Awasthi (pediatrics), Prof RK Garg (neurology), Prof Amita Jain (microbiology), Prof Santosh Kumar (orthopedics) and Dr Sujita K Kar (psychiatry) for securing a place on the list of top scientists by Stanford University.