Naval Kishore Vikram (born 1970) is an Indian physician, diabetologist and a professor at the department of medicine of the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (AIIMS Delhi).
He is known for his studies in the field of
metabolic disorders
A metabolic disorder is a disorder that negatively alters the body's processing and distribution of macronutrients, such as Protein, proteins, Fat, fats, and Carbohydrate, carbohydrates. Metabolic disorders can happen when abnormal chemical react ...
with special emphasis on
insulin resistance
Insulin resistance (IR) is a pathological condition in which cell (biology), cells fail to respond normally to the hormone insulin.
Insulin is a hormone that facilitates the transport of glucose from blood into cells, thereby reducing blood gluco ...
and
obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it may negatively affect health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's we ...
and his work assisted in profiling the Indian population with regard to imbalanced dietary practices and cardiovascular risk factors.
He was a member of the group which proposed guidelines for obesity management, metabolic syndrome, and dietary controls for Asian Indians. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and
ResearchGate
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, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 125 of them.
A member of the Institute Ethics Committee of AIIMS Delhi,
Vikram received the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award in 2010.
The
Department of Biotechnology
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of the Government of India awarded him the
National Bioscience Award for Career Development
The National Bio-science Award for Career Development or N-BIOS Prize is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines. It was instituted in 1999 by the Department of Biotechnology of the Gov ...
, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2012.
He is also a recipient of the AIIMS Excellence Award, which he received in 2013.
Selected bibliography
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Encephalitis
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Sepsis
Sepsis, formerly known as septicemia (septicaemia in British English) or blood poisoning, is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. This initial stage is follo ...
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N-BIOS Prize recipients
Indian scientific authors
Living people
Medical doctors from Delhi
Indian medical researchers
Indian diabetologists
Academic staff of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
1970 births