Balram Bhargava

Professor Balram Bhargava is presently the director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and continues to be professor of cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He graduated in medicine (MBBS), followed by MD and DM, with specialization in cardiology from King George’s Medical University, Lucknow. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), the Indian National Science Academy (FNA), the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) and the National Academy of Medical Sciences India (FAMS). He has published many research papers in national and international journals. He has been awarded the S.N. Bose Centenary award by the Indian National Science Congress, the National Academy of Sciences Platinum Jubilee Award, the Tata Innovation Fellowship, the Ranbaxy Award, the O.P. Bhasin Award, the Vasvik Award for Biomedical Technology Innovation and, more recently, the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Prize for research in Life Sciences at Paris. He has also received the Dr Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health, 2019 by the WHO, Geneva. Last year, he received the President’s Gold Medal from the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow. He has been awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ high civilian award by the Honourable President of India.