CHOWDHURY, AMIYA BIKASH, KOLKATTA

Born :25th November 1923, Chittagaog, Bangladesh
Ph.D (1955), University of Calcutta

Specialization : Parasitology, Tropical Medicine, Immunology , Epidemiology and Environmental Health.

Research Achievements : Chowdhary has investigated host-parasite relationship, immune response in parasitic infections, their modalities, modulations and impact on clinical expression and drug action.Done pioneering studies on microchemical constituents of parasites and their functional significance.Studied population, biology and transmission dynamics of parasitic infections.Identified factors regulating natural abundance of parasitic pathogens. Arrested the development of human hookworms as adaptation to unfavourable external environment.

Positions : Director, Professor and Chairman, Department of Parasitology,School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta; Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research Programme with John Hopkins University, USA; Chairman, Center for study of man and environment.

Learned and Professional Societies : Fellow , National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (UK), Indian Society for Parasitology, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, ; Member, INSA Council (1994-96).

Awards and Honors : President, Medical and Veterinary Science, Indian Science Congress (1967); President, First Asian Congress of Parasitology (1978); Vice President, International Congress of Parasitology and Malaria (1968); Vice President, World Federation of Parasitology(1978-83).

Lectureships : Achanta Lakshmipati Oration; Warner Oration; Sir Nil Ratan Sirkar Memorial Oration; Col. Calvert Memorial Oration; Dr Santilal Seth oration; Maj Gen Sahib singh sokhey memorial oration; Professor BP Pandey memorial oration ;Goswami memorial oration; Tapan memorial oration.

Author/Editor facet :Member, editorial boards of Acta Tropica, Journal of Indian Medical Association, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Indian Journal of Parasitology, Indian Journal Medical Microbiology, Journal of Parasitology applied animal biology, ;Indian journal of communicable diseases; Contributed to the volume "Drugs of choice, current Therapy".

Policy-making bodies : Consultant, WHO; Member , governming body and scientific advisory body,ICMR; Member, Armed forces medical research council; scientific working group, steering committee and expert advisory panel (Parasitic Diseases),WHO; International committee on tropical diseases and malaria; UNEP team of experts; International commission on trichinellosis; international  panel on health policy in developing countries.

Chowdhury has made a significant contribution to the development of medical parasitology as a distict discipline in India. Facilitating specialized training of personnel to be utilized in the National Control Programmes against parasitic diseases; contributed to the foundation of the center for study of man and environment.

Address CF-359,Salt Lake City, Calcutta 700064; Tel (033) 374912.( this phone is non-functional; as far as my knowledge ,this distinguished scientist is no more- He expired on 27th June,2006)

MOGHE MAHADEO ATMARAM , POONA UNIVERSITY

Born 21st April, 1896, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
Ph.D (1937) University of London, UK

Specialization : Zoology, Embroyology

Research Achievements : Mooghe contributed greatly to zoological research with taxonomy of helminth parasites, specially that of cestodes from vertebrates. He studied the development of kidney in teleostean fishes. He piloted an ICAR scheme for survey of the nature and incidence of helminth of infection in cattle,goats and sheep in the former Central Provinces and Berar and Central India.His other areas of interest were cytochemistry, histology and development of mammalian placenta and mammalian sex organs,chromosomes and spermatogenesis in homopterous and heteropterous insects; pineal eye in the garden lizard and post larval stages of brachiopod Crustacea. At National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Moghe initiated and developed studies on biological aspects of problems connected with sewage and fouling of water.

Positions : Registrar, Nagpur University and University of Poona (1951-53); Head, Department of Zoology, University of Poona (1955-57); Research Officer of Zoology, Birla College, Pilani; Professor, Graduate School, Nagpur University; Honorary Professor of Zoology,Institute of Science, Bombay; Emeritus Zoologist ,National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur.

Learned and Professional Societies : Fellow/Member, Zoological Society of India (President,1953-55) and Indian Academy of Sciences ; Member INSA Council (1953-55 ; 1959-61)

Awards and Honors : President, Zoology and Entomology Section, Indian Science Congress (1947).

Author/Editor Facet : Moghe served as honorary editor for the Zoological Society of India.

Other Contributions : Moghe established a flourishing school of mammalian embryology at college of Science, Nagpur.

Died : 12 May 1966.

THAPAR ,GOVIND SINGH , LUCKNOW UNIVERSITY

Born 15th November 1893 ;Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Ph.D (1925) University of London, UK

Specialization : Zoology, Helminthology

Research Achievements : Thapar did extensive work in helminthology. Discovered new helminths in many animals. Established a new classification of Acanthocephala ; studied diseases of domestic animals and discovered the parasites of hump-sore and nasal granuloma of cattle, while making a survey of parasitic infections of domestic animals in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa,Bengal and Assam

Positions : Professor of biology, Islamia College, Peshawar (1917-1918) and Canning College, Lucknow (1918-1922), Professor of Zoology, University of Lucknow (1922-1964).

Learned and Professional Societies : Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Society of India and Helminthological Society of India, Member, Royal Microscopic Society (London).

Awards and Honors : President Zoology section, Indian Science Congress (1937); Bhalerao Memorial Gold Medal (1957), Dr SN Singh memorial gold medal (1983-1984).

Author; Editor Served as editor of Indian journal of Helminthology and Proceedings of All India Congress ,Zoology (1965).

Died (date not available).