B. K. Anand
Academic
1917 –
Who is B. K. Anand?
Professor Bal Krishan Anand, better known as B. K. Anand, was a famous Indian Physiologist and Pharmacologist. He was credited for the discovery of feeding center in Hypothalamus in 1951. He is considered as the founder of modern Neurophysiology in India.
He was born in Lahore as Bal Krishan Anand in 1917. He was graduated from King George Medical College in 1940 and obtained M.D. degree in 1948. He has joined in 1949 in Lady Hardinge Medical College as Professor of Physiology.
He went to Yale University as Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1950 and worked with Professor John R Brobeck. They had published their classic research work in 1951. He has returned to India in 1952 and continued his research in Lady Hardinge Medical College.
He has joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences as its first professor in the Department of Physiology in 1956. He was instrumental in establishing the guidelines of education for M.B.,B.S. and Postgraduate students. He became Dean of that Institute.
He was instrumental in the establishment of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in 1982.
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- Born
- Sep 18, 1917
Lahore - Education
- Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University
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on July 23, 2013
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