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)