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Om Datt Gulati (1927–2012) was an Indian pharmacologist and the Dean of the Department of pharmacology at
Baroda Medical College Baroda Medical College is a medical educational institution for undergraduate and postgraduate medical studies that comes under the Faculty of Medicine of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. It is located in the Raopura area at Vadodar ...
. Known for his researches in autonomic pharmacology, he was also a professor at Pramukhswami Medical College, Anand and an honorary fellow of the Indian Pharmaceutical Society. The
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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...
, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1971. He received B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian medical award, in 1981.


Biography

Om Datt Gulati, born on 31 January 1927, graduated in medicine from the
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and after earning an MD in pharmacology from
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, moved to the
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from where he secured an MS. Returning to India, he joined
Baroda Medical College Baroda Medical College is a medical educational institution for undergraduate and postgraduate medical studies that comes under the Faculty of Medicine of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. It is located in the Raopura area at Vadodar ...
where he spent whole of his regular career and held the post of a Dean at the time of his superannuation in 1985. Post-retirement, he joined Pramukhswami Medical College, in Anand, Gujarat as a professor before associating himself with Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprise, Baroda as a consultant and director. Gulati was one of the founders of the Indian Pharmacological Society, served as its president and held its life membership. He pioneered the academic studies on autonomic pharmacology in India and mentored several master's and doctoral scholars of the subject. His
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-based researches during his days in the US elucidated the physiological role played by the peptides and widened the understanding of its effects on the sympathetic nervous system, central cardiovascular system and pathogenesis of hypertension. He was also known to have done extensive studies on the adrenergic mechanisms. He documented his researches by way of over 135 articles in per-reviewed journalsuthor"> and his work has been cited by a number of authors and researchers. The award orations delivered by him include the B. N. Ghosh Oration of the Indian Pharmacological Society in 1982 and the Golden Jubilee Lecture of the
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in 2011 Gulati died on 23 February 2012, at the age of 85.


Awards and honors

The
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the ...
awarded Gulati
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...
, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1971. He received the Shriram Gold Medal of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 1973 and the Amrut Modi Research Foundation Award in 1978. The Medical Council of India awarded him the B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian honor inn the medical sciences category, in 1981. he is also a recipient of the Uvunas Prize of the Indian Pharmacological Society. Indian Pharmacological Society has instituted an annual oration, ''O. D. Gulati Oration'' and ''Indian Journal of Pharmacology'' awards ''O. D. Gulati Prize Paper Abstracts'' every year in his honor.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gulati, Om Datt Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Medical Science 1927 births Indian medical writers 2012 deaths Indian pharmacologists University of Madras alumni Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University alumni University of Colorado Boulder alumni Dr. B. C. Roy Award winners 20th-century Indian chemists 20th-century Indian biologists