Padma Shri Amrut Mody Research Foundation Award Om Prakash Bhasin Award MCI Research Award Rameshwardas Birla National Award AIPNA Life Time Achievement Award Hari Om Alembic Research Fund Award
Madhav Gajanan Deo (born 6 April 1932) is an Indian oncologist, pathologist and educationist, known for his contributions to the field of Molecular medicine.[1] He is the founder president of the Indian Association of Cancer Research and one of the founders of the Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine.[2] He is a recipient of the Om Prakash Bhasin Award.[1] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri in 1990.[3]
Biography
Madhav Deo was born on 6 April 1932[4] and graduated in medicine from Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior under Agra University in 1955.[5] His master's degree (MD) came from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi for his research under Vulimiri Ramalingaswami which he completed in his first attempt in May 1960[6] after which he secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in July 1964 from the same institution.[7] Joining AIIMS, he became a professor of Pathology in 1974 and held the post till 1978, when he was appointed as the director of Cancer Research Institute, (present day Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer - ACTREC, a satellite institution of the Tata Memorial Centre).[1] He stayed at the centre till 1975, and after a short stint at Jaslok Hospital as the director of Research and Chief of Laboratories (1997-1998), he shifted his base to Mauritius as the director of SSR Centre for Medical Studies and Research, University of Mauritius where he worked for two years, till his retirement in 2000.[5] He also served as a Fogarty Scholar in Residence at John E. Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA and as a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII.[1]
During his masters and doctoral research at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, along with V. Ramalingaswami, Deo was able to develop a non-human primate model of human protein energy malnutrition.[8][9] Together, they propounded the necessity of iodization of common salt,[10][11] which formed the base for the National Goitre Control Programme in India.[12] He is credited with the development of an anti-leprosy vaccine from killed ICRC bacillus which was accomplished during his stint at the Cancer Research Institute.[13][14] Continuing his research at the institute, Deo and his colleagues, discovered an Enhancing Factor (EF), a 14 kDa protein, isolated from the small intestine of mice.[15] This gene is presently in use for producing transgenic mice.[16][17] His researches have been documented by way of several articles, published in peer reviewed journals[18] and papers presented at national and international conferences.[19]
In 1980, Deo and a few other oncological researchers and medical practitioners, got together for the promotion of cancer research and interaction among scientific community and to disseminate knowledge about the disease among the common man and that resulted in the formation of the Indian Association of Cancer Research[20] with Deo as its founder president.[21] He was among the twelve medical researchers who assisted Noshir Hormusjee Wadia in founding the Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine, in 2001, to spread the knowledge about the modern trends in medical and bio-medical research,[22] of which he is the incumbent vice president.[23] The organization plays a role in conducting periodical workshops at institutions, thereby providing easy access for the medical student community to modern medical information;[22] the First National Medical Students' Research Conference was conducted in 2006 at Pune, which was open to medical graduate students.[24] The next one, the First Asian and Second National Medical Students' Research Conference was staged two years.after which, the students, under Deo's leadership, formed an association, the Indian Forum For Medical Students' Research (INFORMER).[24] The forum promotes research based education and assists members to secure funds for education and research.[24] He serves as the member of the editorial board of The Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University[25] and has served as an advisor to many national and international medical organizations[5] such as Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, where he serves as a member of their expert panel.[26] He also worked as an honorary visiting professor at the School of Health Sciences of the University of Pune[27] and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National AIDS Research Institute.[18]
Deo MG, Sood SK, Ramalingaswami V (1965). "Experimental Protein Deficiency". Arch. Pathol. 80: 14–23.
V. Ramalingaswami; T. A. V. Subramanian; M. G. Deo; M. B. Agra (April 1961). "The Aetiology of Himalayan Endemic Goitre". The Lancet. 277 (7181): 791–794. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(61)90118-0. PMID13739307.
^"ICRD profile". Indian Cancer Research Database. 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
^ ab"Padma Awards"(PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original(PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ ab"IAS Fellowship". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
^C. S. Pandav; N. Kochupillai; M. G. Karmarkar; L. M. Nath (June 1986). "Endemic Goitre: Why the Apathy? Review of National Goitre Control Programme". Economic and Political Weekly. 21 (25/26): 1121–1128. JSTOR4375830.