The Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR-RMRIMS), which is located at Agam Kuan,

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is a permanent research institute of the

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and an autonomous body of

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Location

It is located at Agamkuan in the eastern part of the city of Patna. It has an area of nine acres.

Research

Its main thrust is research in different aspects of

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also known as kala-azar, black fever and Dumdum fever.

History

It is named after the memory of the first president of

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, Dr.

Rajendra Prasad Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician, lawyer, Indian independence activist, journalist & scholar who served as the first president of Republic of India from 1950 to 1962. He joined the Indian Nationa ...

. After the demise of Dr. Prasad due to chest disease in Bihar, an institute in the memory of his name focus on chest diseases was established. Thus, the RMRIMS was established on 3 December 1963. In October 2008, RMRIMS entered into an agreement with the prestigious University of Calcutta, whereby, doctoral candidates of RMRIMS would be supervised by

Calcutta University The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public collegiate state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best state research university all over India every year, C ...

faculty. The institute has been accorded affiliation by Calcutta University for Ph.D and other academic activities. With this, now the students of Bihar have a choice to conduct their research work under Calcutta University while working at RMRIMS, Patna. It would help in stopping local students from going to Calcutta or other places for better academic institutions. A few decades ago, the institute did a yeoman's job in inventing medicines for coal mine workers of

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. Pioneered by Dr (Late) Harkirat Singh , the institute invented a medicine for Coal Miners Pneumoconiosis, an illness very similar to asthma.

References

External links

Official website

CU accords affiliation to medical institute
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