SGPGIMS professor selected for Amrut Mody Unichem Prize

Updated on: Saturday, September 24, 2011

A professor at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) has been selected for the Amrut Mody Unichem Prize conferred by Indian Council of Medical Research.
 
Sunil Pradhan, a professor in the neurology department, would be presented with the award at a ceremony which would be held in the first week of November.
 
The best researches in the field of neurology conducted in the previous 10 years are awarded every four years.
 
This is the third ICMR award conferred to Pradhan. He has earlier received the Dr H B Dingley and Shakuntala Amirchand ICMR awards.
 
Pradhan is the first and the only clinical neurologist to have received the country's most prestigious Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar award in 2002.
 
He would be conferred the award for his international clinical research in a specific neurological disorder called muscular dystrophy.

He discovered five new clinical signs which have all been published in international journals.

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