Men Of Science

 Luzito de Souza (1959)

An internationally known oncologist Dr Luzito de Souza was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992.

He is the founder of Shanti Avedna Ashram (S.A.A), India's first hospice that provides palliative care for terminally ill patients suffering from cancer, AIDS etc. It also provides training in palliative care to doctors, nurses, volunteers and social workers. Caste, creed and community are no bar and medical/nursing care is provided free of cost. SAA has tended to over 5,000 patients during the last ten years. Its training centre at Mumbai has provided those interested, from all over the country, to benefit from its vast experience. It also has branches in New Delhi and Goa.          Back To CampionKnights

Dr Mustansir Barma (1966)

Mustansir is a theoretical physicist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Colaba, Mumbai. He works on Statistical Physics, a field which deals with collective effects like phase transitions in systems with very many components, in or out of equilibrium.

He did research for his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, postdoctoral work at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and spent a sabbatical year at Oxford University.

He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the INSA Young Scientist medal and later the Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences. He has served as the Chair of the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Currently he is a Senior Professor and Chair of the Department of Theoretical Physics at TIFR.                                                                                           Back To CampionKnights

Dr Dipankar Pramanik (1967)

Dipankar has spent more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry in a career that has spanned all aspects of Technology Development from Process through  Design to Product. He has been responsible for introducing 12 generations of Technology from conception to large volume manufacturing during  management tenures at VLSI Technology and American Microsystems. He received the "Inventor Of The Year" and "Outstanding Product Introduction" awards at these companies.

He was co-founder and VP of Engineering of Virtual Wire, a firm focused on wireless chips. Dipu is currently Group Director at Synopsys, a leading provider of electronic design tools.

He has 35 issued patents and has more than 90 publications. He was an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension for more than 15 years , teaching courses on Process Technology  and physical design. He has given lectures around the world  in Europe,Asia and Latin America. He has a Ph.D. degree  in Physics from Cornell University, USA.                                                                                                                                       Back To CampionKnights

Dr Mukesh Batra (1967)

India's leading homeopath Dr Mukesh Batra (founder of Dr Batras' Positive Health Clinic) has been awarded the International Goldstar Millennium Award for Excellence. The award was presented at the Indo-Thai Friendship Economic Co-operation conference held in Bangkok.
Mukesh has been previously honoured with a number of awards for excellence in the field of medicine. Some among them are the Lok Shree Award (which he got along with the Late Mother Teresa), Outstanding Citizen of India Award (which he received along with India's leading industrialists Mr. S. P. Godrej and Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla), and the Pride of India Award - New York (Other recipients of this award include three former Prime Ministers of India). He was also presented with the International Star of India award by His Excellency, Mr. Lalit Mansingh, Indian High Commissioner to UK.                                                                                       
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Dr Ramesh Shivdasani (1976)

Ramesh is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and founder of the Shivdasani Lab.
He received his PhD in 1988 and MD in 1989 from the University of Michigan, followed by postgraduate training in internal medicine and adult oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He completed a research fellowship with Dr. Stuart Orkin at Children's Hospital, where he demonstrated the pivotal roles of selected lineage-restricted transcription factors in specific aspects of blood cell differentiation. He joined Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1997.
Ramesh was awarded Scholar Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2000 Robert Black Charitable Foundation, 2000 Scholar of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Foundation, 1998
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Dr Sanjiv Talwar (1977)

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Dr Vikram Patel (1978)

Vikram is a psychiatrist who has been championing the cause of mental health in developing countries. 
After leaving school, he completed his medical training in Mumbai (where he secured the Gold Medal in the final medical exams), and pursued higher degrees in Oxford (MSc) and Kings College London (PhD). 
He has been a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, the Beit Medical Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Leadership Development and, since 2000, a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Tropical Medicine. 
Vikram has worked for two yeas in Zimbabwe and, since 1996, in Goa, where he has been involved in setting up community mental health services and research projects. 
He is a Reader in the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; he has also held Visiting academic appointments at Universities in Australia, the UK and India. 
He has been the founder of three NGOs in Goa and has worked closely with the WHO on a number of international programs in mental health and has supported or advised programs in Mozambique, South Africa, Benin, Brazil, Mongolia, Malaysia, Ethiopia and Cambodia. 
He has written or edited four books, including Where There Is No Psychiatrist, a mental health care manual for developing countries.

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