Dilip Kumar Ganguly

D. K. Ganguly

Born|  (1940-01-04) 4 January 1940 (age 85)

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Nationality| Indian
Known for| Studies on Parkinsonism
Awards|

* 1985 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

Scientific career
Fields|

* Neurophysiology
* Neuropharmacology

Institutions|

* Indian Institute of Chemical Biology

Dilip Kumar Ganguly (born 4 January 1940) is an Indian neurophysiologist, neuropharmacologist,[1] and a former head of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and director of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.[2][3] Born on 4 January 1940 in Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal, he is known for his researches on Parkinsonism[4] as well as for his efforts in promoting neuropharmacological studies in India,[5] and his researches have been documented by way of several articles in per-reviewed journals.[6][note 1] Besides, he has contributed chapters to books published by others[3] and his work has been cited by any researchers.[7][8][9] He is a founder fellow of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences and has served as its vice president.[10] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1985.[11]

## Selected bibliography

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* D. K. Ganguly (1976). "Antioxotremorine action of propranolol". British Journal of Pharmacology. 56 (1): 21–24\. doi:10.1111/j.1476-5381.1976.tb06953.x. PMC 1666755. PMID 1252661.
* Seth P, Gajendiran M, Maitra KK, Ross HG, Ganguly DK (1993). "Evidence for D1 dopamine receptor-mediated modulation of the synaptic transmission from motor axon collaterals to Renshaw cells in the rat spinal cord". Neurosci. Lett. 158 (2): 217–20\. doi:10.1016/0304-3940(93)90268-p. PMID 8233099. S2CID 24839288.
* Gajendiran M, Seth P, Ganguly DK (1996). "Involvement of the presynaptic dopamine D2 receptor in the depression of spinal reflex by apomorphine". NeuroReport. 7 (2): 513–6\. doi:10.1097/00001756-199601310-00033. PMID 8730818. S2CID 12626993.
* Gupta S1, Chaudhuri T, Ganguly DK, Giri AK (2002). "Anticlastogenic effects of black tea (World blend) and its two active polyphenols theaflavins and thearubigins in vivo in Swiss albino mice". Life Sci. 69 (23) (published 2001): 2735–44\. doi:10.1002/ptr.1038. PMID 12410547. S2CID 9167474.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
* Das M, Sur P, Gomes A, Vedasiromoni JR, Ganguly DK (2002). "Inhibition of tumour growth and inflammation by consumption of tea". Phytother. Res. 16 (Supp. 1): 40–4\. doi:10.1002/ptr.797. PMID 11933138. S2CID 35045674.

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## Notes

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1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

## References

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1. ^ Shrikant Mishra, Bhavesh Trikamji, Sandeep Singh, Parampreet Singh, Rajasekharan Nair (2013). "Historical perspective of Indian neurology". Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 16 (4): 467–477\. doi:10.4103/0972-2327.120422. PMC 3841583. PMID 24339562.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ^ "Dogs freed from lab". The Telegraph. 2017. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017.
3. ^ a b Alexander Storch; Michael A. Collins (6 December 2012). Neurotoxic Factors in Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 322–. ISBN 978-1-4615-1269-1.
4. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017.
5. ^ P. N. Tandon (2017). "Neuorosciences, an Overview" (PDF). Indian Academy of Neurosciences.
6. ^ "On ResearchGate". 2017.
7. ^ B Banerjee; T.C. Chaudhuri (9 January 2005). Therapeutic Effects of Tea. Science Publishers. pp. 44–. ISBN 978-1-57808-398-5.
8. ^ Ivan A. Ross (28 October 2007). Medicinal Plants of the World, Volume 3: Chemical Constituents, Traditional and Modern Medicinal Uses. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-1-59259-887-8.
9. ^ Christian Rätsch (25 April 2005). The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. pp. 510–. ISBN 978-1-59477-662-5.
10. ^ "Indian Academy of Neurosciences fellows". Indian Academy of Neurosciences. 2017.
11. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

## External links

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* "On PubMed". List of articles. US National Library of Medicine. 2016.

## Further reading

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* Ganguly DK, Malhotra CL (1967). "Some behavioural effects of an active fraction from Herpestis monniera, Linn. (Brahmi)" (PDF). The Indian Journal of Medical Research. 55 (5). Indian J Med Res: 473–82\. PMID 6065425.

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Science

1960s|

* R. B. Arora (1961)
* Bal Krishan Anand (1963)
* N. K. Dutta (1965)
* V. Ramalingaswami (1965)
* J. B. Chatterjea (1966)
* R.J. Vakil (1966)
* A. K. Basu (1967)
* M. J. Thirumalachar (1967)
* S. R. Mukherjee (1968)
* Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1968)
* S. Kalyanaraman (1969)
* Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1969)

1970s|

* J. R. Talwar (1970)
* O. M. Gulati (1971)
* A. K. Maiti (1971)
* N. R. Moudgal (1976)

1980s|

* P. R. Adiga (1980)
* T. Desiraju (1980)
* U. C. Chaturvedi (1981)
* Indira Nath (1983)
* J. N. Sinha (1984)
* B. S. Srivastava (1984)
* D. K. Ganguly (1985)
* S. S. Agarwal (1986)
* P. Seth (1986)

1990s|

* Maharaj Kishan Bhan (1990)
* Shashi Wadhwa (1991)
* U. N. Das (1992)
* N. K. Mehra (1992)
* G. P. Pal (1993)
* K. B. Sainis (1994)
* Y. D. Sharma (1994)
* S. K. Panda (1995)
* A. K. Tyagi (1995)
* V. Ravindranath (1996)
* S. K. Sarin (1996)
* S. K. Gupta (1997)
* Vijay Kumar (1997)
* G. Balakrish Nair (1998)
* Ch. Mohan Rao (1999)

2000s|

* Shahid Jameel (2000)
* Birendra Nath Mallick (2001)
* Sunil Pradhan (2002)
* C. S. Dey (2003)
* Anil Kumar Mandal (2003)
* C. E. Chitnis (2004)
* Javed Naim Agrewala (2005)
* V. S. Sangwan (2006)
* Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan (2007)
* Ravinder Goswami (2008)
* Santosh G. Honavar (2009)

2010s|

* Mitali Mukerji (2010)
* K. Narayanaswamy Balaji (2011)
* Sandip Basu (2012)
* Pushkar Sharma (2013)
* Anurag Agrawal (2014)
* Vidita Ashok Vaidya (2015)
* Niyaz Ahmed (2016)
* Amit Dutt (2017)
* Deepak Gaur (2017)
* Ganesan Venkatasubramanian (2018)
* Dhiraj Kumar (2019)
* Mohammad Javed Ali (2019)

2020s|

* Bushra Ateeq (2020)
* Ritesh Agarwal (2020)
* Jeemon Panniyammakal (2021)
* Rohit Srivastava (2021)
* Dipyaman Ganguly (2022)

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