Narinder Kumar Mehra

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Narinder Kumar Mehra
Chevalier of the National Order of Merit
  • 2003 Chief of the Army Staff Award
  • 2004 ICMR Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize
  • 2004 Khwarizmi International Award
  • 2011 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award
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    • Narinder Kumar Mehra (born 4 November 1949) is an Indian

    Chevalier of the National Order of Merit from François Mitterrand
    in 2003.

    Biography

    All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi

    Born on 4 November 1949 in

    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle. On his return to India, he joined his alma mater, AIIMS, as a pool officer in 1977.[4] In 1979, he was elevated to lecturer with the additional responsibility of the clinical and research activities of the Histocompatibility Laboratory established under the Department of Anatomy in 1977, the year he joined AIIMS.[5] In 1993, the laboratory, which served as the core laboratory in India for workshops on histocompatibility as well as a base for researches on human leukocyte antigen (HLA), was upgraded to a full-fledged department under the name "Department of Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics", which he headed as its founding chair, in the capacity of a professor and served out his career at AIIMS in that position. He also served as the member secretary of the Research Advisory Council[6] and chaired the Dean's Research Committee (DRC) at AIIMS.[7] At the time of his official retirement from service in 2004, he was serving as the Dean of Research and post-retirement, he holds the Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) at AIIMS,[8] continuing his research at the institution.[9]

    Mehra resides in AIIMS Campus, in Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.[10]

    Legacy

    A hand affected by rheumatoid arthritis

    Mehra, whose research has covered various aspects of histocompatibility and immunogenetics,

    bone marrow transplantation.[2] He also guided a team of scientists in a project based on polymorphic immunomodulatory genes for developing molecular medicine to combat infectious, autoimmune and rheumatological diseases.[15] His research has been published by way of over 450 articles;[16][note 1] of which 287 are listed by ResearchGate.[17] Besides, he has published a book, The HLA Complex in Biology and Medicine: A Resource Book,[18] and has contributed chapters to books published by other researchers,[19][20][21] including Textbook of Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Allied and Molecular Medicine.[22] His researches have been cited by many authors, too.[17][23][24][25][26]

    The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi established a Histocompatibility Laboratory under its Department of Anatomy in 1977, the year Mehra joined as a pool officer at the institution.[5] Subsequently, he took over the activities of the laboratory and by the time he was promoted to professor in 1993, the laboratory had developed into a referral centre as well as a core laboratory for histocompatibility workshops and AIIMS elevated its status to an independent department, the Department of Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics, with Mehra as its founding chair.[2][5] Under the aegis of the new department and in association with Dadhichi Deh Dan Samiti,[27] he established the first Asian Indian Donor Marrow Registry (AIDMR), a database of the donors of bone marrow in India in 1994.[28][29][30] He would later explain the details of the registry through an article, Asian Indian donor marrow registry: All India Institute of Medical Sciences experience, published in Transplantation Proceedings in 2007.[31] He has delivered a number of keynote addresses or invited lectures including MedIndia 2003[32] 2013 seminar of human genomics at the Guru Nanak Dev University,[33] 2016 India-Japan Regulatory Symposium,[34] and a Guest lecture series organized by Manipur University in 2016.[35] He has also mentored around 60 masters and doctoral research scholars in their studies.[28]

    Professional associations

    Mehra is the founding president of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia Oceania (FIMSA) and has served as its vice president thereafter.[36] He was also the organizer of the Advanced Course on Basic and Translational Immunology, conducted by FIMSA in collaboration with the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and Indian Immunology Society (IIS) in March 2012;[37] he has also served as a member of the council of IUIS.[36] He presides over the Indian Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics and was a member of the faculty of the 2016 edition of ISHICON held in December 2016 at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.[38] He sits on the National Board of Advisors of the Center for Stem Cell Science,[39] and the Advisory Board of Indus Foundation[40] and is a trustee of the Board of Immunology Foundation[41] as well as a member of the Publication Advisory Board of the Indian National Science Academy.[42]

    Mehra sits on the editorial board of

    Wiley's journal Modern Rheumatology.[44] He has been associated with journals such as Microbes and Infection of Pasteur Institute, Paris, International journal of Human Genetics and Journal of Clinical Immunology of Springer, as a member of their editorial boards.[45] He is a former member of the ELSI Committee of the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics consortium (T1DGC) of the National Institutes of Health and a former vice president of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT). The invited speeches delivered by him include the first scientific meeting of Allergy and Immunology Society of Sri Lanka (ALSSL) and the Braunschweig Streptococcal colloquium.[45] He has also been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Jalma Institute of Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Task Force on Human Genetics and Human Genome Analysis of Department of Biotechnology and the Task Force on Human Genetics of the Indian Council of Medical Research.[46]

    Awards and honors

    Mehra received the H. J. Mehta Gold Medal in 1977 and the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1983.

    Chevalier of the National Order of Merit of the Government of France from François Mitterrand in 2003;[50] the same year as he received the Chief of the Army Staff Award.[45] A year later, the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) of the Government of Iran awarded him the 2004 Khwarizmi International Award.[51] and he received the Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 2004.[52][47] The Indian Council of Medical Research honored him again with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for excellence in biomedical research in 2011.[29][53]

    The

    honoris causa membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[57] He is also a fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy, Delhi.[58] The award orations delivered by him include the IRA-Boots Oration of 1983, Guru Nanak Dev University Prof G.S. Randhawa Oration of 1996,[59] and the ICMR JALMA Trust Foundation Award Oration of 1999.[60]

    Selected bibliography

    Books

    Chapters

    Articles

    See also

    Notes

    1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

    References

    1. ^ "Photos from Saturday March 19th 2016 / Bittu Sahgal and OCs". Old Cottonians Association. 2017.
    2. ^ a b c d e f "Indian fellow – N. K. Mehra". Indian National Science Academy. 2017.
    3. ^ "AIIMS Alumni PhD 1975". AIIMS. Delhi. 2017. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    4. ^ "Brief Bio". Frontiers. 2017.
    5. ^ a b c "Dr. Narinder Mehra on MHC" (PDF). MHC. 2017.
    6. ^ "Member Secretary". Research Advisory Council, AIIMS. 2017. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    7. ^ "Dean's Research Committee (DRC)". AIIMS Delhi. 2017. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    8. ^ "National chair and Former Dean (Research), AIIMS". Frontiers. 2017.
    9. ^ "Genetic analysis of a nomadic tribe springs a surprise". India Bioscience. 5 May 2015.
    10. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010.
    11. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017.
    12. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 71. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    13. ^ "Fellowship of the World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS)". Dadhichi Deh Dan Samiti. 2015.
    14. ^ "Editorial Contributions". Frontiers. 2017.
    15. ^ "Bio-sketch" (PDF). Medical University of Vienna. 2017.
    16. ^ "Articles on AIIMS Repository". All India Institute of Medical Sciences. 2017.
    17. ^ a b "On ResearchGate". 2017.
    18. ISBN 978-81-8448-870-8
      .
    19. ^ Ishwar C. Verma (1986). Genetic Research in India. Sagar Printers & Publishers.
    20. ISBN 978-94-009-3365-1
      .
    21. ^ N. K. Mehra (chapter) (2007). "Basic methods in HLA-DNA technology". Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology.
    22. ISBN 978-81-203-5125-7
      .
    23. ISBN 978-0-306-44892-8
      .
    24. ISBN 978-1-4684-7662-0
      .
    25. ISBN 978-0-323-35613-8
      .
    26. ^ Indian Journal of Medical Research. Indian Council of Medical Research. 2006.
    27. ^ "Vardhan is first to give marrow registry blood". Times of India. 7 August 2014.
    28. ^ a b c "NK Mehra on BioAsia" (PDF). BioAsia. 2017.
    29. ^ a b "Dr B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for excellence in biomedical research" (PDF). Indian Council of Medical Research. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    30. ^ "Vardhan relaunches Asian Indian Donor Marrow Registry at AIIMS". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
    31. PMID 17445580
      .
    32. ^ "MedIndia 2003" (PDF). Indian Journal of Medical and Pediatric Oncology. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    33. ^ "Experts dwell on human genomics at GNDU seminar". Amritsar Tribune. 26 March 2013.
    34. ^ "Regulation on Regenerative Medicine products in India" (PDF). India-Japan regulatory symposium. 2016.
    35. ^ "Guest lecture series by Dr. N K Mehra". Manipur University. 2017. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
    36. ^
      ISBN 978-81-317-3220-5
      .
    37. ^ "FIMSA/IUIS/IIS Advanced Course on Basic and Translational Immunology". International Union of Immunological Societies. 2017.
    38. ^ "President, Indian Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics". ISHICON 2016. 2017.
    39. ^ "National Board of Advisors". Center for Stem Cell Science. 2017. Archived from the original on 21 January 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    40. ^ "Advisory Board". Indus Foundation. 2017. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
    41. ^ "Board of Immunology Foundation". Immunology Foundation. 2017.
    42. ^ "Publication Advisory Board". Indian National Science Academy. 2017.
    43. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)2059-2310
      .
    44. ^ "International Advisory Board-Modern Rheumatology". Springer. 2017.
    45. ^ a b c "Chief of the Army Staff Award". AIIMS Delhi. 2017.
    46. ^ "AIIMS News". www.aiims.edu. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
    47. ^ a b Pratiyogita Darpan (September 2007). Pratiyogita Darpan. Pratiyogita Darpan. pp. 24–.
    48. ^ "Medical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017. Archived from the original on 24 February 2013.
    49. ^ "OPB Award". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014.
    50. ISBN 978-81-8448-870-8
      .
    51. ^ "Khwarizmi International Award". Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). 2017.
    52. ^ "Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize". Indian Council of Medical Research. 2017. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
    53. ^ "Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research – 2011" (PDF). ICMR News. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
    54. ^ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2015.
    55. ^ "INSA Year Book 2016" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
    56. ^ "TWAS fellow". The World Academy of Sciences. 2017.
    57. ^ "Minutes of the Executive Committee" (PDF). Anatomical Society of India. 2013.
    58. ^ "IMSA fellow". International Medical Sciences Academy. 2017.
    59. ^ "Mehra, Majumder given genetics award". The Tribune. 17 January 2000.
    60. ^ "JALMA Trust Foundation Award Oration". Indian Council of Medical Research. 2017. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.

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