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ACBICON 2008

1. Fellowship award :- The Association awards Fellowship of ACBI to distinguished members on the basis of their achievements. The nominations for Fellowship are invited annually through announcement in the News Bulletin. Nominations received before 31st. August are considered by an award committee and those found suitable are admitted as Fellows during a convocation held at the time of Annual Conference. Nominations are submitted on prescribed Performa available from the Secretary or from the Head Office. Fellowship is also awarded to past-Presidents of the Association as honouris causa. Till 1997, twenty members have been admitted as Fellows. List of fellows of ACBI are as below :-

1.     Dr. K.G. Tanklsale (1995)                        2.      Dr. C. Sita Devi (1995)   

3.      Dr. T.N. Pattabiraman (1995)                   4.      Dr. K.L. Mukherjee (1995)

5.      Dr. N.C. Panda (1995)                            6.       Dr. G.D. Kalyanakar (1995)   

7.      Dr. A.S. Sane (1995)                              8.       Dr. K.P. Sinha (1995)  

9.      Dr. P.P. Singh (1995)                            10.      Dr. A.V. Potnis (1995)    

11.    Dr. P.S. Shukla (1995)                           12.      Dr. P.S. Murthy (1995)

13.    Dr. T. Malati (1995)                                14.      Dr. G. K. Khuller (1998)

15     Dr. U. M. Donde (2004)                          16.      Dr. K. K. Srivastava ( 1995)

17.    Dr. L.M. Srivastava (1995)                      18.      Dr. B.C. Harinath (1996)

19     Dr. T. Venkatesh (1997)                         20.      Dr. P.R. Prasad (1997)

21.    Dr. A.S. Kanagasabapathy (1997)           22.      Dr. C.R. Maity (1997)                                                         

23.    Dr. Harbans Lal (1997)                           24.      Dr. Surendra Pal Singh (1997)   

25.    Dr. S.S. Dubey (1997)                           26.       Dr. Col. Y.V. Sharma (2002)

27.    Dr. A.K. Bhutey (2002)                          28.       Dr. F.R. Billimoria (2002)         

29.    Dr. R. L. Matoo (2002)                           30.       Dr. P. Usha Sarma (2004)    

31.    Dr. A. R. Aroor (2004)                           32.       Dr Praveen Sharma (2004)

33.    Dr S. Swaminathan (2004)                    34.       Dr K. Taranath Shetty (2005)

35.   Dr K. M. Dubey (2005)                                  36.        Dr. M. V. Kodliwadmath (2006)

37.   Dr. M. V. R. Reddy (2006)                     38.        Dr. B. N. Tiwary (2007)

39.  Dr. A. N. Suryakar (2007)     

        



2. Awadhesh Saran Memorial Oration Award :- This oration award was instituted in the year 1977 to commemorate Prof. Awadhesh Saran, Founder President of the Association, who died a premature death in 1976. Through this oration the Association honours distinguished scientists to deliver lecture on subjects of interest to clinical bio-chemists. Nominations are invited through News Bulletin for this purpose and selection is made by an Award Committee. The following eminent persons have given orations :

1.     Dr. S. Avrameas (Paris) 1977                            2.        Dr. G.P. Talwar (Delhi),1978

3.      Dr. B.K. Bachhawat (Calcutta),1979                  4.         Dr. P.N. Campbell (London),1980

5.      Dr. S. Avrameas (Paris),1982                             6.         Dr. D. Subramanyam (Bombay),1983

7.      Dr. D. Stamm (Germany),1985                           8.         Dr. T.H. Rindani (Bombay),1986

9.      Dr. K.L. Mukherjee (Calcutta),1987                    10.         Dr. R. Nath (Chandigarh),1988

11.   Dr. T.A.V. Subramaniam (Delhi),1989                  12.         Dr. M.G. Deo (Bombay), 1990

13.      Dr. R.K. Chandra (Canada),1991                      14.         Dr. B.C. Harinath (Sevagram), 1992

15.      Dr. P.V. Subba Rao (Bangalore), 1993              16.        Dr. P.S. Murthy (Delhi), 1994

17.      Dr. G. Padmanabhan (Bangalore),Jan95            18.       Dr. T.M. Pattabiraman (Dharwad),Dec.95

19.    Dr. S. Mazumdar (Chandigarh) 1996                    20.       Dr. N.C. Panda (Cuttack),1997

21.    Dr. M.J.Macqueen (Canada), 1998                       22.       Dr. V. I. Mathan (Bangalore),Jan 2000

23.    Dr. P. Usha Sharma (Delhi),2001                         24.       Dr. Denis Lo (Hongkong), 2002

25.    Dr. A.S. Kanagasabapathy (Vellore) Feb. 2003     26.       Dr. P.P. Singh (Udaipur) Jan. 2004

27.   Dr. T. Malati  (Hyderabad) Dec. 2004                   28.      Dr. Sheshadri Narayanan (USA), (2005)

29.   Dr. Mridula Phadke (Nasik),  Dec 2006                 30.      Dr. Satish  K. Srivastava (USA),   Dec.,2007

 

3. Seth G.S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital Oration :- The Organizers of the 16th Annual Conference of the Association held at Seth G.S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay established this oration in 1992 by donating a sum of Rs. 15000/ The oration is held regularly at the time of Annual Conference. Since then following distinguished scientists have been honoured:-

1.      Dr. K.L. Mukherjee (Calcutta)                      2.         Dr. C.M. Habibullah (Hyderabad),1993

3.      Dr. L.M. Srivastava (Delhi), 1994                  4.         Dr. K.K. Srivastava (Delhi),1995

5.      Dr. P.P. Singh (Udaipur),1995                      6.         Dr. N. Sivaprasad (Mumbai),1996

7.      Dr. G.K. Khuller (Chandigarh), 1997              8.         Dr. D. N. Rao (Delhi),1998

9.      Dr. T. Venkatesh (Bangalore),1999              10.         Dr. T. Malati (Hyderabad), 2001

11.      Dr. Harbansh Lal (Rohtak),2002                 12.        Dr. K. Taranath Shetty (Bangalore) , February 2003     

13.     Dr. M.V.R. Reddy (Sewagram), Jan.2004     14.       Dr. Praveen Sharma (Jaipur) December 2004

15.     Dr Sucheta Dandekar (Mumbai), 2005          16.       Dr. Ruma Bannerjee ( USA) Nov 2006

17.   Dr. P. K.Seth (Kucknow) , 2007

 

4. K.L. Gupta Memorial Oration :- This oration was instituted by K.L.Gupta Memorial Trust in the year 1993 by a handsome donation to the Association by K. L. Gupta Trust for commemorating the memory of Late K.L. Gupta, a great philanthropist, and father of Dr. T. Malati, ex-President of ACBI. The oration has to be given in the field of cancer.

The following scientists have been honoured:-

1.      Dr. H.S. Advani (Mumbai), 1993                       2.         Dr. A.V. Rama Rao (Hyderabad), 94

3.      Dr. V. Shanta (Chinnai), 1995                          4.         Dr. D.M. Vasudevan (Trichur), 96

5.      Dr. K. Subbarao (Hyderabad), 1997                  6.         Dr. I. Mitra (Bombay),1999

7.      Dr Mammen Chandy (Vellore), 2000                 8.         Dr. G. P. Talwar (Delhi),2002

9.      Dr. P. N. Tandon (Delhi), February 2003          10.         Dr. P. S. Prabhakaran (Bangalore), January 2004

11.   Dr. Gurunath Kilara (Bangalore) Dec. 2004       12.         Dr. A. D. Singh (Patna), 2005

13.   Dr Indu Mohan Gupta (Varansi) Nov 2006         14.         Dr. Manoj Sharma (Delhi), 2007  

 

5. Pitabus-Jamuna Burma Memorial Award :- The award was instituted by Dr. D.P. Burma, past President of the Association in memory of his parents. The contestants for this award have to be a life member of the Association or a membership of at least 3 years duration. The age of the contestants should be below 35 years on 31st of December of the year. The applicants have to submit a a write up (not more than 2000 words) on an original research work in medicine based on approaches in Biochemistry or Molecular Biology, published by any author in any prestigious journal of the world in the preceding one year.

Application along with (1) five typed copies of the write up, (2) five photocopies of the original paper and (3) documentary evidence of age should reach the Secretary by registered post by 31 October of the year. A panel of 3 judges appointed by the President shall scrutinize the papers and select not more than two best papers. The selected candidates shall be invited by the secretary to present their paper orally before the judges at the Annual Conference in special award session. The best candidate selected shall be awarded cash of Rs. 500/- and a certificate at the following conference.

Award Winners

1983, 1984, 1985 Awards were given but record is not available. Those who received the award are requested to intimate the Head Office for record.

1986 to 1996 No award was given

1997      Dr. Arati Panda, S.C.B. College,  Cuttack

2002      Ms. Vandana Seth, Central Insecticide Lab, Faridabad, Haryana

2004      S. B. Patil, Dept of Biochemistry, J. N. Medical College, Belgaum

2006      Major Bhaskar Mukherjee, AFMC, Pune

2007      Dr Barnali Das, Mumbai, India



 6. K.P. Sinha-P.S. Krishnan Award :- The Award was instituted in the year 1990 jointly by Organising Committee of 13th and 15th. Annual Conferences held at Patna and Jammu by each donating Rs. 10,000/- out of the savings from their respective conferences with a view to encourage biochemists to publish their work in Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry (IJCB). The papers published each year in IJCB are adjudged by a set of 3 Judges appointed by the President in consultation with the Editor of the Journal. The author/authors of the best paper are awarded a certificate and a cheque of Rs. 2000/- to be shared equally between the authors. The following authors have been given the award :

              Year                                        Name

                1990                S. Swaminathan and T.N. Pattabiraman of K.M.C. Manipal

                1991                K.S. Krishna and A.S. Kanagasabapathy of C.M.C. Vellore

                1992                J.S. Suresh Kumar and Venugopal P. Menon of Kerala Univ., trivandrum

                1993                G.P. Das, B. Mandal, P. Ghosh and C.R. Maity of B.M.C. Burdwan

                1994                No award declared this year

                1995                S.P. Rao, P. Ratnakar, P.S. Murthy and A. Cantaro of UCMS, Delhi

                1996                M.M. Khanolkar, A.V. Sirsat, M.S. Bhansali, P. Jagannath and L.J. DeSouza

                1997                Dr. Mrs. Rita Christopher & Dr. K.Taranath Shetty of NIMHANS, Bangalore

                1998                K. Gokula,, S. Khare and D.N.Rao of AIIMS, New Delhi

                1999                Anubha Paliwal, Nivedita. Bir, S. Raghuraman, T.L.P.Reddy &
                                       P. Usha Sarma of CBT, Delhi

                2000                Senthilkumar K., D.Sarvana Kumar, N. Kumaraswamy, Sunitha S., Manjula S.,
                                       & Venkitraman S.

                2001                E. Rajinair, Swati Banerjee, Satish Kumar, M.V.R.Reddy & B.C.Harinath of
                                       MGIMS Sevagram

                2002               T.F.Ashavaid, Seema P. Todur and K. G. Nair (Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai)

                2003               V.M.Balkar, M. V. Kamath, C. Vishwanathan, A. M. Veradkar and S.E.Bharmal

                                        (Seth G.S. Medical     College, Mumbai)

                2004                No Award declared                

                2005                 Subir Kumar Das & D. M. Vasudevan ( Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi)  

                2006                 Farah F. Eghlim, T.F.Ashavaid, and K. G. Nair (Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai)

                2007                 Rashmi Raghuvanshi, Aiki Kaul, Pushpa Bhakuni, Aparna Mishra & M. K. Misra (Dept. of Biochemistry, Lucknow University, Lucknow)

     

7. Dr. C. Sita Devi Award :- The Organising Committee of the 6th Annual Conference of the Association instituted this award in the name of their Organising Secretary Dr. C. Sita Devi in the year 1985 by donating a sum of Rs. 5000/. Later Dr. Sita Devi further donated a sum of Rs. 5000/-. The award was instituted to encourage young members of the Association to present their work at scientific sessions of the annual conference. The award is given to a life member or member of at least 3 years standing and whose age is below 40 years on 31 December of the year. The contestant for the award submits his/her paper to the Organising Secretary of the Conference. The scientific committee of the conference scrutinises all papers and selects 2 best papers for being beard by judges at special session during the conferences. The winner of the contest is awarded a certificate and a cheque of Rs. 1000/- at the Inaugural Function of the next conference. The list of winners of the award are as under :

               Year                                           Name

                1985        S. David of St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore

                1987        Anil Wali of PGIMER, Chandigarh

                1988        K.D. Mudgal of AIIMS, New Delhi

                1992        P. Ratnakar of UCMS, Delhi

                1993        Alpana Gupta of NIMS, Hyderabad

                1994        K. Gokulan of AIIMS, New Delhi

                1995        Shivani Kaushal of PGIMER, Chandigarh

                1996        Lokesh Agrawal of AIIMS, New Delhi

                1997        Babul Bandopadhya of UCM, Calcutta

                1998        R. S. Tare, Dr.D.Y.Medical College, Pimpri (Pune)

                1999        Nitin G. Joshi, B.J.Medical College,Pune.

                2000        Dr. Rashmi Sharma, PGIMER, Chandigarh

                2002        Shivani Chhabra (AIIMS, New Delhi)

                2003        Ms. Dave Manasi (Iladevi Cataract & Intraoccular Lens Reseach Centre, Ahmedabad)

                2004        Ms. Beena P. Patel (Biochemistry Res. Div., Gujrat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad) 

                2005        Dr Barnali Das, Department Of Biochemistry, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi.

                2006        Ms. Jyotsna Batra,  (Molecular Immunognetics Laboratory, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi )

           

                2007      Prakruti Dash ( Cuttack, India)

                       * In the years where no winner has been shown, either there was no paper for contest or no one was found worthy of the award.


8. NIMS Best Poster Award :- The Organising Committee of 19th Annual Conference of ACBI headed by Dr. T. Malati donated in 1994 a sum of Rs. 10,000/ for the purpose of instituting Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) Best Poster Award with a view to encourage young members of the Association to present their work in the form of attractive posters. Prior to this, prize was being awarded by the Organising Committee since 1991. Only those authors of posters are considered for award whose age on 31 December of the year is below 40 years. There are 2 awards : (i) One for those posters which are on cancer topic, and another (ii) which are on non-cancer topic. The posters are judged by a set of judges appointed for the purpose. The award is given to successful authors during the inaugural function of the next conference. The following is the list of winners of the award :

1991        R. Senthil Kumar and T.N. Pattabiraman, KMC, Manipal

1992        Sangeeta Khare, AIIMS, Delhi

1993        Anjan Basak, Sawangi (Wardha)

1994    (i) Arti Gupta, PGIMER, Chandigarh (non-cancer topic) jointly with

           (ii)  Chhaya Godese, T.N. Med. College, Mumbai (non-cancer)

           (iii)  M.DSouza, N.H.E.S., Mumbai (Cancer topic)

1994 (Dec.)  (i)  Ikram Khakhatay, IRR Mumbai (non-cancer topic)jointly with

                  (ii)  Bhuvana Desigan, PGIMER, Chandigarh (non-cancer topic)

1995        (i)   Rita Christopher, St. J.M.C., Bangalore (non-cancer topic)

              (ii)   G. Rajnikumari, NIMS., Hyderabad (Cancer topic)

1996        (i)  K.L. Joy, Amla CC, Trissur (Cancer topic) jointly with

              (ii)  R. Rajgopalan BARC, Mumbai (Cancer topic)

1997       (i)   D. Murali Mohan Krishna, NIMS Hyderabad (Cancer topic)

            (ii)   C. Khade, RMC BARC, Mumbai (non-cancer topic)

1998     (i)  Sharmila Upadhya, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

           (ii)  Indumohan Das, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore

1999      (i)   Sujata Mishra, St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore

             (ii)  T. N. Upadhya, D I P A S, Delhi

2000     (i) S. L. Redkar, T. M. H. Mumbai

           (ii)  Shyama Subramaniyam, Apollo Hospital, Chennai

2002.      Beena P. Patel (Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad). under Head Cancer

2003    

2004     (i)  Sucheta Kumari N., K.S.Hegde Medical Academy, Mangalore   (Non-Cancer Topic)

           (ii)  Amisha A. Desai, Biochemistry Res. Div., Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad- (Cancer Topic)

2005    (i)  R.Murugesan, Dept of Biochemistry, KMC Life Sciences Centre, MAHE, Manipal (Cancer Topic)

           (ii) Deepti Gupta, Dept of Biochemistry, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal (Non-Cancer Topic)

2006   (i) Dr. Amisha A. Desai, Biochemistry Res. Div., Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad-                 (Cancer Topic)

           (ii) Ms. Sheeba Abraham, (Non-Cancer Topic)

 

9.    P.S. Murthy Award : The Organising Committee of 18th Annual Conference of ACBI held at Delhi in 1992 donated a sum of Rs. 10,000/ for instituting P.S. Murthy Award for best paper presented during a conference on the subject of (i) Infectious diseases and on (ii) Development of drugs from plant sources. If there is no paper in oral presentation worth the award, then paper in poster presentation also shall be taken into account in deciding the winner. The award is open to any type of member of the Association, including sessional members, whose age on 31 December of the year is below 40 years. In each category the best paper author will get a certificate along with a cheque of Rs. 500/ during the Inaugural function of the next Conference. If no award is given in any particular year, then the award money will be given to 2 young delegates who have applied for traveling grant to the Organising Secretary. The presentations of papers are judged by a set of judges so appointed. The papers may be heard in a special session arranged for all award papers. The following is the list of awardees :

1994        V. Chenthamarakshan, MGIMS, Sevagram (Infectious disease category)

1995        Karnail Singh, PGIMER, Chandigarh (Infectious disease category)

1996       (December). P.K. Sinha, PGIMER, Chandigarh (Infectious disease category)

1997        Dr. Dinesh Puri, B.P. Koirala I.H.Sc., Nepal (Drug development category)

1998        E. Raji Nair MGIMS, Sevagram (Infectious disease category)

1999        M. Sharma Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak (Infectious disease category)

2000        No award given

2002      (1)Laxman S. Meena (Instt. of Genomics & integrative Biology, Delhi) under head Infectious Diseases

             (2) Vinit Malhotra (Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehra Dun) under development of drugs

2003      (1)  Ms. Kalpana Luthra, Dept.of Biochemistry & A.I.I.M.S., New Delhi) under head Infectious Diseases

              (2) ................ under development of drugs

2004     (1) Bindu C.M., Dept. of Biochem., M.S.Ramiah Med. College, Bangalore - under head Infectious Diseases

            (2) Jagriti Jha, Dept. of Biochem., S.M.S. Med. College, Jaipur  - under Development of Drugs

2005   (1) Mr Seetharamaih Chittiprol, Dept of Neurochemistry, NIMHANS, Bangalore - under head - Infectious 

               Disease

 

          (2) Ms.Samidha Pawaskar, KJ Somaiya College of Science & Commerce, Mumbai- under head - Development 

               of Drugs      

2006  (1) Dr Meghana K. Padwal - under head - Infectious Disease

          (2) Ms.Samidha Pawaskar, KJ Somaiya College of Science & Commerce, Mumbai- under head - Development 

               of Drugs  

 

2007   (1) Geetanjali Gupta , New Delhi -  under head - Infectious Disease

 

10.    MGIMS (Sewagram) Award : The Organising Committee of 20th Annual Conference of ACBI through Dr. B.C. Harinath donated in 1995 a sum of Rs. 10,000/ to institute MGIMS Award for best paper on Tropical Diseases presented during a conference. The paper should be either on biochemical, immunological or molecular aspect of the disease. The award is open to all member delegates to the conference, whose age on 31st December of the year is below 40 years. Even the papers presented in poster sessions are also considered for the award. A set of judges are appointed for the award. The following is the list of awardees :

                                1995                Dr. Karnail Singh, PGIMER, Chandigarh

                                1996                Bhuvana Desigan, PGIMER, Chandigarh

                                1997                No award

                                1998                Sudhir Sharma, PGIMER, Chandigarh

                                1999                Anil Sharma, PGIMER, Chandigarh

                                2000                Neelam Sharma, PGIMER, Chandigarh

                                2003                Y. P. Bhandary, MGIMS, Sewagram

                             2005                Vijay Upadhye, MGIMS, Sewagram

                             2006                V. Anandharaman

                             2007                 No award

11.  Dr. T. N. Pattabiraman Oration Award : This oration award was instituted in the year 2004, December by his beloved students by donating Rupees Two lacs One thousand. The Oration award shall be announced by the award committee after receiving nominations from members. Awardee will give oration lecture on topics of interests to Clinical Biochemists, at the time of Annual conference every year.  The awardee shall be presented a memento, certificate and money to cover his/her travel. Nominations are invited through News Bulletin for this purpose and selection is made by an Award Committee. The following eminent persons have given orations :

                            2005               Dr Tony Badrick  (Australia)

                            2006               Dr. K. Taranath Shetty (Bangalore)

                            2007               Dr. Udayan Ray ( Tasmania, Australia) 

 

 

12. Mrs. & Dr G. P. Talwar Oration :

                       2004 (Jan.)

                       2004 (Dec.)         Dr. D. N. Rao, AIIMS, New Delhi   

                       2005                   Dr N. K. Mehra,  AIIMS, New Delhi

                       2006                   Dr  R. Swaminathan ( U.K.)

                       2007                   Dr. Chandra K. Mittal (Houston, USA)

 

13. A.C.B.I. Travel Fellowship :  The Travel Fellowship has been constituted by a donation of Rs. Twenty five Thousand by Dr. A. S. Kanagsabapathy, Organising Secretary, ACBI conference, Vellore ; Rs. Twenty Five thousand by Dr. Vijay Singh Thakur, Organising Secretary of Workshop in Quality Control held at AIIMS, New Delhi & Donation of Rs. Fifty Two Thousand by Mr. S. K.  Manhar, Director, Priman Instruments Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi. Applications are invited by the Organising Secretary of the Annual conference,  for availing this fellowship through the conference brochure. This award shall be awarded to Young Members of ACBI below the age of 35 whose paper has been accepted for presentation and has not availed any other assistance through any other source.  The award will be decided by a committe consisting of the Organising Secretary, President and General Secretary of ACBI. The awardee will be  given To and Fro 3 tier sleeper class rail fare to the maximum of Rs. 1000/-. The awardee's name will be announced during the valedictory function of the conference and the cheque will be presented.