Subrat Kumar Panda

Subrat Kumar Panda (born 1954) is an Indian virologist, professor and Head Department of Pathology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.[1][2] Known for his researches in viral hepatitis,[3] Panda is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,[4] Indian National Science Academy[5][note 1] and the National Academy of Medical Sciences.[6] 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 1995.[7][note 2]

Subrat Kumar Panda
Born (1954-11-18) 18 November 1954
Odisha, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on Viral hepatitis
Awards
  • 1995 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
  • AIIMS Delhi
Doctoral advisor
  • Arie Zuckerman

Biography
Utkal University

Born on 18 November 1954 in the Indian state of Odisha, S. K. Panda graduated in medicine from SCB Medical College, Cuttack in 1977 and earned an MD from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi in 1981.[8] Subsequently, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of Arie Zuckerman of London School of Tropical Medicine which he completed in 1987. Returning to India, he joined AIIMS Delhi as a member of faculty at the department of pathology and serves as the professor and head of the department.[9]

Panda is married to Gita Satpathy, a professor of microbiology at AIIMS, Delhi and the family lives in AIIMS campus.[10]

Legacy

Panda, whose researches covered the fields of Molecular Virology and Liver Pathology, is known to have contributed to the wider understanding of viral hepatitis.[11] He carried out extensive researches on various types of hepatitis virus such a B, C and E and elucidated the replication and transcription processes of Hepatitis E virus.[12] These studies, based on Rhesus monkeys, demonstrated the relationship of the virus with liver diseases and protracted viremia. His researches have been documented by way of several articles;[13][note 3] and online article repositories like Google Scholar[14] and ResearchGate have listed a number of them.[15]

Awards and honors

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1995.[16] Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow the same year, followed by the National Academy of Medical Sciences[17] and the Indian National Science Academy in 2010.[18]

Selected bibliography
  • Hazari, Sidhartha; Panda, Subrat Kumar; Datta Gupta, Siddharth; Batra, Yogesh; Singh, Rajbir; Acharya, Subrat Kumar (2004). "Treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in patients of northern India". Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 19 (9): 1058–1065. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1746.2004.03405.x.
  • Sengupta, Sonali; Rehman, Shagufta; Durgapal, Hemlata; Acharya, Subrat Kumar; Panda, Subrat Kumar (2007). "Role of surface promoter mutations in hepatitis B surface antigen production and secretion in occult hepatitis B virus infection". Journal of Medical Virology. 79 (3): 220–228. doi:10.1002/jmv.20790.
  • Bhatia, Vikram; Singhal, Amit; Panda, Subrat Kumar; Acharya, Subrat Kumar (2008). "A 20-year single-center experience with acute liver failure during pregnancy: is the prognosis really worse?". Hepatology. 48 (5): 1577–1585. doi:10.1002/hep.22493.
  • Kumar, Amit; Panda, Subrat Kumar; Durgapal, Hemlata; Acharya, Subrat Kumar; Rehman, Shagufta; Kar, Upendra K. (2010). "Inhibition of Hepatitis E virus replication using short hairpin RNA (shRNA)". Antiviral Research. 85 (3): 541–550. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2010.01.005.
  • Prabhu, S. B.; Gupta, P.; Durgapal, H.; Rath, S.; Gupta, S. D.; Acharya, S. K.; Panda, Subrat Kumar (2010). "Study of cellular immune response against Hepatitis E Virus (HEV)". Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 18 (8): 587–594. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2893.2010.01338.x.
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See also

Notes
  1. Long link - please select P and click on SK Panda to see details
  2. Long link - please select award year to see details
  3. Please see Selected bibliography section

References
  1. "70 apply for AIIMS director's post". The Hindu. 23 September 2013.
  2. "Faculty". AIIMS Delhi. 2017.
  3. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017.
  4. "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017.
  5. "Indian fellow - S K Panda". Indian National Science Academy. 2017.
  6. "NAMS Fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2017.
  7. "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  8. "Expert Profile". ND TV. 2017.
  9. "Faculty profile". AIIMS Delhi. 2017.
  10. "At AIIMS, docs lose sleep as burglars strike at will". Delhi Talking. 16 December 2008.
  11. "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 71.
  12. "Summary of achievements" (PDF). Science and Engineering Research Board. 2017.
  13. "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017.
  14. "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2017.
  15. "On ResearchGate". On ResearchGate. 2017.
  16. "Medical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013.
  17. "State wise fellows list" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2017.
  18. "INSA Year Book 2016" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 2017.
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