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NATH, Indira
Director, LEPRA - Blue Peter Research Centre
Indira Nath nee Neti Indira Rao received MBBS from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. After the mandatory hospital training undertaken in UK, she returned to AIIMS for MD (Pathology). She was prompted to specialize in immunology due to her exposure to the new discipline while in UK availing the Nuffield Fellowship (1970). She decided to work in the area of infectious diseases, particularly leprosy which was a major concern in India at that time. She worked with Professor John Turk at the Royal College of Surgeons and Dr RJW Rees at the National Institute for Medical Research, London and then joined Faculty in AIIMS. She first joined Professor GP Talwar's Department of Biochemistry which had just initiated immunology research in India; then moved back to the Department of Pathology (1980), became Head of the new Department of Biotechnology (1986) at AIIMS, and continued to work there as INSA-SN Bose Research Professor even after her retirement (1998). She was invited as Dean of School of Medicine in Asian Institute of Medicine, Engineering and Technology in Malaysia and subsequently as Director of Blue Peter Research Centre (Lepra Research Centre), Hyderabad. She also received DSc (hc) from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris (2002).
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PLENARY SESSION III. “SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY”