Hargovind Laxmishanker "H. L." Trivedi (31 August 1932 – 2 October 2019) was an Indian

nephrologist Nephrology (from Greek'' nephros'' "kidney", combined with the suffix ''-logy'', "the study of") is a specialty of adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (ren ...

, immunologist,

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and stem cell researcher. He was a pioneer of transplantation medicine in India and a founding director of the Kidney Hospital in

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

. He and his team performed more than 5200

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s. He was awarded the

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in 2015.

Early life

Trivedi was born on 31 August 1932 in the village of Charadva near

Halvad Halvad is a town and a municipality in Morbi district in the Gujarat state of India. Geography Halvad is located at . It has an average elevation of 46 metres (150 feet). Halvad sits on the banks of the Samatsar Pond. Halvad was a ...

(now in

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, Gujarat). His father Laxmishankar Trivedi was a teacher. He completed his primary education from Lunsar village near

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. He studied pre-medical at the Faculty of Science, Dharamsinhji College,

Rajkot Rajkot () is the fourth-largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat after Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat, and is in the centre of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Rajkot is the 35th-largest metropolitan area in India, with a population of ...

from 1951 to 1953 and then an

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degree at the B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad from 1953 to 1963.

Career

He had higher training for two years in the

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in the US, and practiced for eight years in

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. A visit to his native land changed his mind and he returned to

in 1977 to continue his practice in India. He joined B. J. Medical College as a professor of nephrology. He founded the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC, also known as Kidney Hospital) located in the

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campus on 7 October 1981. His friends and industrialists Rasiklal Doshi and Mafatlal Mehta helped with donation of . The institute was moved to the new building in 1992. The Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS) was established in 1997 in the same campus. It is the largest kidney hospital in the world with 438 beds. He and his team completed more than 5200 kidney transplantations in the institute. It is also the only public-sector

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institute in India. IKDRC-ITS was upgraded into the

Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences (GUTS) is a State university (India), state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was established in 2015 by the Government of Gujarat and focuses on Organ transplantation, transplanta ...

in 2015 and Trivedi was appointed its Pro-Chancellor. He founded the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation. He was also the founding chief editor of the ''Indian Journal of Transplantation'' and ''Indian Journal of Nephrology.'' He held several patents on

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for transplantation tolerance and

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producing stem cells. His autobiography ''Tryst with Destiny'' (1996) is translated in Gujarati as ''Purusharth Potano: Prasad Prabhuno'' (2016) by Aruna Vanikar. He died on 2 October 2019 in Ahmedabad after prolonged illness. He suffered from neurological and liver ailments, as well as

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Recognition

Trivedi was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCP(C)). In 2006, the Institute of Transplantation Sciences was renamed Dr. H. L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences in his honour. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree by

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in 2009. He was felicitated as a ''Nagar Ratna'' by

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in 2014. He was honoured by the

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in 2015 with the

, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. He was also awarded by The Transplantation Society in 2018.

Selected papers

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References

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