Jagdish Narain Sinha

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Jagdish Narain Sinha
Born (1939-01-15) 15 January 1939 (age 85)
Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Known forStudies on medullary baroreflex
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Jagdish Narain Sinha (born 1939) is an Indian pharmacologist and a former professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the Uttar Pradesh Dental College and Research Centre, Lucknow. [1] He is also a former member of the faculty of King George's Medical University [2] and has been a member of the Independent Ethics Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization. [3]

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Born on 15 January 1939, Sinha is known for his research on the delineation of the neurochemical modulation of medullary baroreflex . [4] His researches have been documented through a number of articles [5] [6] [7] [note 1] and his work has been cited by many researchers. [8] [9] [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 1984. [11] [note 2]

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  1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section
  2. ↑ Long link - please select award year to see details

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  1. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017.
  2. ↑ G.A. Higgs; T.J. Williams (18 June 1985). Inflammatory Mediators: Congress Proceedings. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 207–. ISBN   978-1-349-07834-9.
  3. ↑ "IEC Members" (PDF). Independent Ethics Committee. 2009.
  4. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Indian Journal of Medical Research. Indian Council of Medical Research. 1986.
  6. ↑ British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy. 1966.
  7. ↑ Medical Council of India (1984). Dr. B. C. Roy Anniversary Souvenir.
  8. ↑ Science of Synthesis: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations Vol. 10: Fused Five-Membered Hetarenes with One Heteroatom. Georg Thieme Verlag. 14 May 2014. pp. 78–. ISBN   978-3-13-178011-9.
  9. ↑ Progress in Medicinal Chemistry. Elsevier. 22 September 2011. pp. 78–. ISBN   978-0-08-086272-9.
  10. ↑ Bep Oliver-Bever (23 January 1986). Medicinal Plants in Tropical West Africa. Cambridge University Press. pp. 282–. ISBN   978-0-521-26815-8.
  11. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.



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