Khem Singh Grewal (1894-1965) was an Indian pharmacologist. He worked at the

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, and the

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in Dibrugarh. He had varied research interests, including the study of medicinal plants. He participated in a large study of

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incidence in India. He was key in founding pharmaceutic education at the University of Punjab in Lahore.

University of Punjab

The initiation of pharmaceutical education in

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of undivided India was in 1944, when in King Edward Medical College at Lahore Dr. Khem Singh Grewal thought of starting the B. Pharm. degree course. Dr. Grewal who was Professor of Pharmacology in the medical college had been in association Col. R. N. Chopra at School of Tropical Medicine in

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(now Kolkata) and with Dr. J. H. Burn at the London School of Pharmacy. These associations had been instrumental in arousing his interest in pharmacy and promoting pharmacy education. Following the

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the didactical facilities to run the B. Pharm. course shifted from Lahore to Amritsar till 1959. The consolidated pharmacy instructional facilities under the banner of Department of Pharmacy were shifted to the

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campus at Chandigarh. Dr. K. N. Gaind was given the reigns of the department.The Drug Discovery that Escaped by a Whisker
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grewal, Khem Singh Indian pharmacologists 1894 births 1965 deaths People from Ludhiana district Indian Sikhs University of the Punjab alumni 20th-century Indian biologists Scientists from Punjab, India