Krishan Chandra Singhal (born 1941) is an Indian

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and has been serving as founder

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, India.

Biography

Singhal was born on 16 June 1941 at

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. He completed high school and the earned his

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from

Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University (abbreviated as AMU) is a Public University, public Central University (India), central university in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Orie ...

. He once secured 2nd position in a competition organised under "Physical Culture Test’ in 1957-58 session. He did

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(1959 batch) and MD (1968) from

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; PhD (1976) from

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and

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(2001) from

, Aligarh.

Career

He joined Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of

as Assistant Research Officer under a project of

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on 29 January 1968. He then worked as Demonstrator (15 May 1968), appointed Lecturer (1969), Reader (30 March 1979) and Professor (3 May 1988). He became the ‘Chairman’, Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College from 8 August 1990 to 7 August 1996 and then from 8 August 1999 to 7 August 2002.

Scientific contributions

He has made extensive and highly significant contributions in the field of

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. He established new methods for screening antifilarial agents using '' Setaria cervi'' as test organism. He is one of the foremost pioneers in the field of Indian

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and organised many scientific meets in the field of Pharmacovigilance. He founded the

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(SoPI) in 1999.

Bibliography

* Manual for Practical exercises in Pharmacy * Manual for Practical exercises in Experimental Pharmacology * Textbook of Pharmacology, JP Brothers, Delhi, India

Family

He belonged to a family of learned physicians and scholars. This family is very well known in

as a "Doctor Family". His father Dr. Ganga Prasad Gupta was a leading practitioner in

. The lifelong companion, Professor Usha Singhal is a noted name in the field of

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. All his children and their spouses (sons-in-law and daughter-in-law) are also physicians and doctors. Apart from them, Dr. Singhal’s brother and sister-in-law are also celebrated practitioners in

.Life & Achievements of Prof. K. C. Singhal by S. Z. Rahman & R. A. Khan, Indian Journal of Bio-Research, Golden Jubilee Volume (Vol. 50, No. 2, 2003), 2005: i-ii

Awards and ‘Orations’ delivered

* BC Sharma Memorial Research Award of

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(1975) * SS Parmar Foundation Award of Indian Academy of Neuroscience (1984) * Major General SL Bhatia Oration Award of Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India (1995) * Colonel RN Chopra Oration Award of Indian Pharmacological Society (1995) * Platinum Jubilee Oration Award of Indian Science Congress Association (1996) * G Achari Oration Award of Indian Pharmacological Society (2001) * John Autian Oration Award of Society of Pharmacovigilance, India (2002) *

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, (2005)

References

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