Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences (GUTS)

JURY FROM 2007 TO JANUARY 2014

JURY FROM MARCH 2014 ONWARDS

Prof. John B. DossetorProfessor Emeritus,Medicine/Bioethics, Univ. Alberta,Ottawa, Canada

Prof. Veena R. ShahDeputy Director, Prof. and Head of Anesthesia and Critical CareIKDRC-ITS Ahmedabad

Captain T.G. PatelAdjunct Assoc. Professor of Medicine and Nephrologist Uniformed Services of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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MEMBERS

We at the Institute Of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) and Institute Of Transplantation

Sciences (ITS) created Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan (Awards) in 1998 as a part of the th

celebration of 50 Anniversary of India's Independence. It is our conviction that we have a responsibility

to take an active role in the development of transplantation as a medical science. We have a firm belief in

the inventive ability of individuals to make a difference in the world of medical science and future of

patients with organ failure. We always wanted to foster values we cherished such as dedication, high

quality medical care, sincerity to the purpose and above all, undifferentiated high quality care for patients

who are rich and poor having organ failure.

Thus, Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan (Award) was born with the express purpose of

providing encouragement to research scientists working in the field of transplantation who break new

grounds and conduct themselves in an exemplary way in the research ethos of Indian subcontinent.

Sushruta, a descendant of Rishi Viswamitra, was the greatest surgeon of all times. He was one of the few

old experts of the Indian system of medicine. In fact he is the first authentic person to carry out the

dissection of the human body and describe the anatomy in details.

thHis treatise on singems, Susruta-Salya-Tantra, were composed about 6 century BC and revised by th

Nagarjuna in later part of the 4 century BC. His major achievements were in the field of plastic surgery of

nose, operations on the abdomen, on eyes for cataract, gynecological surgeries and removal of urinary thtract stones. Before the end of 8 century A.D., Sushruta Samhita was translated into Arabic and was

called Kitab- Shaw-Shoon-attindi or Kitab-I-Susurd. He was the first surgeon to perform operations of

skin grafting.

With that knowledge in the background, the awards were decided to be dedicated only to the name of

Sushruta by the committee, on the occasion of the golden jubilee celebrations of India's independence

from the 400 years old British Raj.

Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan (Award) for high quality research in transplantation are

established to provide encouragement and bestow honor to men and women seeking to break new

ground in areas with advanced knowledge and bring solution to the transplantation problems and bring

better life to patients with transplanted organs. Winners will receive a citation, trophy, worldwide

recognition of their efforts and aspirations in addition to cash prize.

Awards are designed to assist new and old talents who to clarify the existing concepts and generate

new ideas and concept in the field of Transplantation as a Medical Science.

Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan (Award) will recognize outstanding initiatives in key research areas of

transplantation as a biological science. These areas will include Basic/ applied research related to Clinical

Transplantation, Transplant Immunology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Radiology and other related areas.

Contribution must expand existing knowledge about transplantation and also contribute towards the improvement

in the quality of life of millions of patients who have received or are waiting to receive one/ more organs for their

survival.

Candidate must have serious long-term commitment to research in transplantation, which will

significantly contribute towards better life for transplanted patients today and tomorrow. The research

work will also be reviewed for its potential future impact on transplantation as a science.

Prizes

Eligibility

Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan (Award) will be given to one individual. He/ she will receive

Rs.300,000/- (Indian Currency) in cash, a citation and a shawl as per Indian tradition. He/ she will be invited to

Ahmedabad as a guest of IKDRC-ITS for receiving the award at the official awards ceremony.

Any person of any origin who fulfills the above criteria, will be eligible to apply. The essential quality that all

candidates must have, is a serious long-term commitment to research in transplantation as a medical science.

Prof. H.L.Trivedi popularly known as Dr. H.L.Trivedi, was born on August 31, 1932 in a traditional Hindu Brahmin family in a small village of Gujarat to Shree Laxmishanker Trivedi, a brilliant scholar in Sanskrit, who was a school teacher and a simple mother. Dr. Trivedi took his basic medical education in Ahmedabad and moved on to USA with brilliant performance in ECFMG examinations. He trained under several distinguished luminaries of the time like Dr. Willhem Kolffe, Dr. Heymann and Dr. John Dossetor and took FACP and FRCP. He worked as the Medical Director Of Regional Transplantation Services at McMaster University, Canada. It was then that he had an irresistible desire to build an institute for kidney diseases and transplantation services for the poor and down trodden people of his country. It took him ten tumultous years to realise his dream. The Institute Of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre was thus born in 1981 and he is the founder director of this institute. Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute Of Transplantation Sciences, her sister institute was born on June 9, 1996, again his second child.

He was the President elect of the Indian Society Of Nephrology and Indian Society Of Transplantation. His has realized his dream of tolerance in clinic i.e. achieve drug free normal life after transplantation with his research. His team has also pioneered in generation of various stem cells for treating diabetes mellitus, mesenchymal stem cells, cardiac disorders and neurological disorders, regulatory T and B cells, with continuous addition to their bag. This is all humbly put by the team as attempt to serve the humanity by the grace of Almighty. With numerous awards and credits to his honor, he still believes that love and respect from his patients is the highest accolade he has received in his life.

thProf. Starzl was born on 11 March, 1926, in a family that ran its newspaper in the

United States. He took his MA, PhD and MD from Northwestern University, Chicago.

With faculty appointments starting from the post of instructor, culminating to the

position of Director of Transplantation at the Starzl Institute (named after him),

University Of Pittsburgh, perhaps he is the only human being who has brought the

field of transplantation from fantasy to a routine clinical practice with laborious lab

research and efforts for the last four decades. He achieved the first successful liver

transplantation with the help of Antihuman Globulin (ALG) in 1967. His team was the

first to perform multi-organ transplantation in 1987 and the first pancreatic islet cell

graft in 1990. Dr. Starzl's inner strength and undaunted courage helped him sustain

severe opposition and crticism from leaders in all walks of life. He personally trained

surgeons and basic scientists all over the globe. Thus multi-organ transplantation

programs were established around the world. His contributions to the field's

literature being magnanimous, he is the most referenced scientist in the world with

more than 10,000 citations to his credit. The world is only enriched by the presence

of a living legend in the person of Dr. Starzl.

thJohn Richard Batchelor was born on 4 October, 1931 in Surrey, England. He took

his basic medical education at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London in 1955 after

finishing BA at Cambridge. He subsequently qualified with MRCS, LRCP, MA, MB,

B.Chiro, MD, FRCPath and FRCP, all from Cambridge. His main interest is in the

area of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. He retired in 1994 as the Chairman

of Immunology

Department at Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital,

London. He and his PhD student Robert Lechler (who has now taken over the reigns

from Prof. Batchelor) established the concept of direct and indirect pathways of

immunologic sensitization. He is that rare leader, who with his band of followers

generated a library of HLA antisera by giving each other skin allografts in the early

sixties. Along with holding high offices in several scientific societies, he was also the

European Editor of Transplantation from 1963 to 1998. Today, he has retired from the

position of Professor Emeritus at the Immunology Department at Royal

Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.

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Prof. Ajit Phadke was born on October 13, 1935 and departed for his heavenly abode

on August 26, 2012. He was the son of a general surgeon and naturally took to

Urology after his basic medical education in Mumbai. He worked with brilliant

teachers of the time including Prof. John Dossetor. He worked at Royal Victoria

Hospital, Canada and qualified for F.I.C.S. He had several publications and awards to

his credits. His versatility carried him from Urology across General Surgery,

Gynecology and Obstetrics to Biochemistry. His commitment to the profession and

patient care made him one of the most respected doctors by poor and afflicted

patients and voluntary organizations. He served as the Professor and Head of

Urology Department at Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences and Honorary

Consultant and Professor Emeritus in Urology Department at Sir J.J. group of

hospitals in Mumbai.

Prof. John Beamish Dossetor

He was born in Banglore, India, in 1925 to Australian parents. His father was a clergy

man. He took his basic medical education at Oxford University, England. He served

for two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps mainly in Gurkha brigade in India,

Malaysia and Singapore and then returned to Hammersmith for further education. He

obtained his MRCP (UK) in 1955 and PhD in Experimental Medicine at McGill

University in 1961. Out of his numerous contributions in the areas of nephrology,

general medicine and transplantation immunology research, one of the most

valuable must be his work on multiple transfusions, which has alleviated fear from the

minds of transplanters all over the world, and improved the quality of graft survival.

The clergy in him has drawn him towards founding the Bioethics Society of Canada

where he is still active today. The University of Alberta has honored Prof. Dossetor by

naming the centre the JOHN DOSSETOR HEALTH ETHICS CENTRE in 1998. A

graduate Award –“The John Dossetor Scholarship in Health Ethics” have also

been established. With numerous accolades to his credit, he still will be best

identified as the guardian soul of bioethical issues of transplantation around the

world.

Late Prof. Carl Groth

Year of birth: 1933

Date of demise: February 16, 2014

He was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1933 and died on February 16, 2014. He received

his education up to Doctorate in Medicine, at Karolinska Institute, Sweden. After

working with National Institute of Health and with Prof. Starzl at Denver in Colorado,

he returned to Sweden to develop the field of Transplantation Sciences there. He was

the first person to perform pancreas, bone marrow, liver and islet transplantation in

Sweden. He was the pioneer in translational research for organ transplantation and

one of the pioneers in research on cell and organ transplantation in metabolic

diseases, in xenotransplantation and in immunosuppression. He was instrumental to

make transplantation biologists dream of successfully developing model of pig-to-

man islet transplantation for bringing succour to suffering diabetics all over the world.

Apart from being honored as Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England,

American Surgical Association and various other Societies, he was one of the rare

celebrated Scientists of the globe who had over 700 scientific articles, 40 book

chapters and the first monograph on Pancreatic Transplantation, to his credit. His list

of associations with various Professional and Scientific Societies ranged from being

a member of the American Philosophical Society to being Past President of the

International Society of Organ Transplantation and Ex-Chair of the Nobel Assembly.

stShe was born in Ahmedabad on 1 October, 1950. After her initial training in BJ

Medical College, Ahmedabad and procuring her diploma as well as Masters in

Anesthesia, she was invited by Prof. Trivedi to develop the department of Anesthesia

for his dream-child the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre. She rose

to the present position by sheer hard work, her commitment to patient care and keen

interest in the subject. She was one of the members of the team that carried out the

first renal transplantation of the state. She has progressively worked to make

anaesthesia safer in high risk transplant patients.

Today after her official retirement she continues to serve the department as the Chief

of Anesthesia and Critical Care unit of the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research

Centre- Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS). She is still training her young

team for Anesthesia in multi-organ transplantation as well as all challenging cases in

her field. She is also the Deputy Director of the institutes and currently the

Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of the IKDRC- ITS.

Prof. Veena R. Shah

Thakor G. Patel, MD currently serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Following his training in Nephrology and Internal Medicine in 1979, Dr. Patel joined the United States Navy where he served for 23 years. His assignments included Diving Medical Officer, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Head and Program Director of Nephrology and then Director, Medical Service and Medical Director at the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia. He also was the leader of a surgical support team during the invasion of Grenada in 1983 and Director, Medical Services of a fleet hospital in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

He served as Specialty Advisor to the Navy Surgeon General for Nephrology from 1988 to 1993 and for Surface Medicine from 1993 to 1998. He was responsible for starting the Surface Warfare Medical Institute in San Diego for training medical personnel going to the Fleet and redesigned the medical spaces on USS Nimitz as well as organized the first ever medical war games.

Dr. Patel is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology and is a Master of the American College of Physicians. After retiring from the Navy in 1998, he joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC as the Program Director, Renal Diseases, Diabetes, and Oncology where he was responsible for critical policies on cancer data sharing, vascular access for hemodialysis, hemoglobin A1C standardization, and hemodialysis data transfer into Computerized Patient Record System. He retired in 2007 and is now actively working in the public health area and volunteering as a nephrologist at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD.

Throughout his career, Dr. Patel received numerous military and civilian awards such as the Legion of Merit, Combat Action Ribbon, Meritorious Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Admiral Joel T. Boone Award of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin President's Award, and an Exemplary Service Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs. He has several articles to his credit. His current project includes how to improve health care in the villages of India. He has created the Sevak Project and under this project trained 31 people about healthcare, sanitation, water purification, prevention of diseases and lifestyle modification education. These Sevaks have started to screen their own village and so far have screened over 18000 people. It is a pilot project and can be duplicated anywhere. This project has been in place for about two years and received an award from GOPIO.

CAPTAIN THAKOR G. PATEL

(AWARD)

1998 SURYAKANT M. PATEL Clinical Transplantation And VEENA R. SHAH Clinical Transplantation And

G. ALEXANDER BISHOP Basic Sciences And ARUN SHANKER SANE Basic Sciences

2000 JOHN JULIAN FUNG Clinical Transplantation And

RAJKUMAR SHARMA Clinical Transplantation

2002 ROLF ZINKERNAGEL Basic Science And

MAMMEN CHANDY Clinical Transplantation And YAIR REISNER Clinical Transplantation

2004 WALTER LAND Clinical Transplantation

2006 SIR PETER MORRIS Clinical Transplantation And

CARL GROTH Clinical Transplantation

2007 PAUL TERASAKI Basic Sciences

2009 SIR ROY CALNE Clinical Transplantation

2010 MARK HARDY Clinical Transplantation

2011 MANIKKAM SUTHANTHIRAN Clinical Transplantation

2012 KATHRYN WOOD Basic Sciences And PRANJAL R. MODI Clinical Transplantation

2013 OLLE RINGDEN Basic Sciences And KOICHI TANAKA Clinical Transplantation

2015 SHIMON SAKAGUCHI Basic Sciences

2016 SHIMON SLAVIN Transplantation Immunology

He was keenly interested in studies of all human stress situations related to critically

ill patients since last twenty years. He was a fellow of Association of Clinical

Biochemistry of India and International College of Nutrition.

He was studying biochemical responses in human stress situations like female

stress, surgical stress, skin disorders and psychiatric in-patients. His interest in the

recent past in oxidative stress and study of cytokines in renal transplant patients will

go a long way in detecting immunological injury to graft and patient as well and help in

improving patient care.

He qualified from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and under took further training of

fellowship at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine under the personal tutelage of Prof. T.E.Starzl to

achieve excellence in liver transplantation. He also worked in Strong Memorial Hospital of The University

of Rochester at New York.

He started with histocompatibility lab and earned near perfection in the most difficult surgeries like liver

transplantation.

He had been working as the Vice Chairman Of Department of Surgery, and also is Director of Transplant

Research, University Of Pittsburgh. He has several honors to his credit for medical research from several

social and academic organizations.

At present he is working at Cleveland Clinic as the Chairman of transplantation surgery service.

At present, he is working as the Chief Nephrologist and Clinical Transplanter at

Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute Of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. He has been

affiliated with the Indian Society Of Nephrology, Indian Society Of Organ

Transplantation, Association Of Physicians of India and several other organisations.

He has also received several awards for research in clinical nephrology.

His understanding of cellular and humoral response in allograft rejection has helped

in working out viable solutions to improve renal allograft survival. His profound

interest in HLA Class I / II antigens has helped in establishing one of the best tissue

typing labs in the country at SGPGI, Lucknow. His current research plans are to

study the role of mixed leucocyte culture to monitor change over from cyclosporine to

other conventional drugs in renal transplant patients.

He obtained his basic medical education in Edinburgh, Scotland. After his training in research in organ transplantation surgery from 1967-71 under Prof. Brendel, he developed his skills and vision in the field of transplantation. He has more than 1000 publications in the field of transplantation and has been a recipient of different awards including the “Pioneer medal” from International Transplantation Society in 2000.

He has contributed in different aspects of transplantation including experimental xenotransplantation, pancreatic transplantation and induction of immunologic tolerance. His contribution towards development of segmental pancreatic transplantation has significantly raised one year survival rates in these grafts. He is one of the early workers to introduce low dose and calcineurin sparing immunosuppression protocols to ameliorate their nephrotoxicity. His recent work on the decisive role of innate immunity in acute and chronic allograft rejection processes, the role of Tol-like receptors- bearing dendritic cells and vascular cells in initiating the injury to allograft has explained the long-term adverse effect on allograft survival including graft arteriosclerosis. He is the founder of International Society of Innate immunity.

His services to the field of transplantation immunobiology will help in realization of the Utopian dream of tolerance in clinical transplantation.

He was born in Australia, and graduated from the Medical School of the University of

Melbourne and St. Vincent's Hospital. You received your surgical training in

Australia, U.K. and U.S.A. After serving as Reader in Surgery at the University of

Melbourne, he moved to Oxford in 1974 to establish major units in transplantation

and vascular surgery there. He was the first Scientist to describe cytotoxic antibodies

after renal transplantation in humans, define autoantibodies in renal allograft

recipients, role of HLA in transplantation, diseases and in anthropological studies. He

is one of the few Transplantation Immunologists to develop tolerance induction in

transplantation in experimental model. He has been awarded with various illustrious

fellowships of Surgical Societies of advanced nations of all the continents and has

won many accolades, including Knighthood from the Queen in 1996 for his services

to Medicine. He is one of the rare celebrated Scientists of the globe who is well known

as the Author of the widely acclaimed Oxford Textbook of Surgery, and Kidney

Transplantation. He is the most widely sought after Visiting, Emeritus Professor at

various celebrated Universities, Advisor and Trustee of several Foundations and

Chairman of the British Heart Foundation, foreign member of the American

Philosophical Society and Past President of the International Society of Organ

Transplantation.

Year 2009

SIR ROY CALNE

He was born in 1930 in Richmond, Surrey in United Kingdom. He took to Surgery

passionately for his profession. He is the pioneer of kidney, liver and subsequently

multi-organ transplantation of Europe, the later was developed in 1994. The

immunosuppressive agent cyclosporine which was invented by Jean Borel was

introduced in clinic successfully by Sir Roy Calne to rule the world of

immunosuppression for several decades. He was knighted as Bachelor in 1986 for

all these extraordinary efforts. Apart from being an extraordinary Transplantation

Biologist, he is a rare blend of an accomplished painter and a profound thinker who

has come on this globe to serve the humanity at his best.

Year 2010

MARK HARDY

He was born in 1938 in Poland and educated in the United States. He was trained in

surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and further specialized in

Transplantation. He was the founder of Organ sharing network of NY and renal and

islet transplantation of Columbia Presbyterian hospital at NY.

He has been a reviewer and editorial board member of various journals of high

repute. His special interest in Transplant tolerance induction, pancreatic islet

transplantation to cure diabetes, hepatocyte transplantation for liver disease and

experimental clinical studies of immunosuppressive drugs is likely to change the

course of transplantation immunobiology.

Year 2011

MANIKKAM SUTHANTHIRAN

thHe was born on 15 August, 1947 in Chennai, India. After his basic medical training in Chennai, He received his further education in various distinguished medical schools of the US. At present he holds the Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professorship in Medicine, and Professorships in Biochemistry and Surgery in Medicine at Cornell University Medical College, NY. He is the founding Chairman of the Department of Transplantation Medicine, and Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension at the New York Presbyterian-Cornell Medical Center. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Executive Transplantation Council of the Multi-Organ Program of Columbia and Cornell, New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

His research has yielded key insights into T-cell activation, mechanisms of immunosuppression and allograft rejection. His discovery that T-cell CD2 protein is a receptor for antigen presenting cells and generates signals obligatory for T-cell activation has led to clinical trials of CD2 antigen blockade for tolerance induction to human renal allografts. His demonstration that CD3 signaling stimulates cytotoxic T-cells, memory T cells and NK cells, elucidation of the role of hydroxyl radicals in NK cell activity, and discovery of cell-surface expression of TNA alpa by CTLs have eliminated life-threatening complications associated with anti-CD3 mAbs and have optimized the use of anti-CD3 mAbs in patients with allografts, type 1 diabetes and psoriasis. These and other discoveries have enriched the world of transplantation biology.

Year 2012

KATHRYN WOOD

She started her career with Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham where she

received a D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 1981 for her work on the

complement system. She were elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical

Sciences in 2002 apart from having a broad array of responsibilities all across the

globe like being on NIH Expert Panel on Transplantation Research, Better

Biomarkers in Transplantation Advisory Board, and the President of The

Transplantation Society. She have Royal Society–Wolfson Research Merit Award

for research excellence.

Currently she is an editor of “Transplantation” and a Professor of Immunology in the

Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford. She has spent her life in

finding out the secrets of immune responses towards an allograft and ventured to

find out ways of immune regulation to achieve normal life after organ transplantation

with no immunosuppression requirement called “tolerance”.

PRANJAL R. MODI

He was born in Ahmedabad, India in 1968 and grew up in Gandhian culture. He received his basic medical education and training in general surgery at M.P. Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, in Gujarat. He then joined Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre and Institute of Transplantation Sciences in Ahmedabad never to look back. With his sheer hard labor and dedication towards the subject and patients he started climbing the academic ladder to reach the position of Professor in Urology and head of the Transplantation surgery. His thirst for knowledge and research made him dive deeper in the area of transplantation surgery.

Since last sixty years of evolution of transplantation as a science, there was no path breaking work in the kidney transplantation surgery. He added new pages to this area by establishing laparoscopic transplantation and helped patients return to mainstream of life quickly. However his grooming and hero-worship of Mahatma Gandhi did not let him rest in peace. He travelled widely and spent hours of days and nights to learn and establish the technique of liver transplantation at the cost of his personal life so that the common man of the country gets the treatment of liver transplantation and does not die on the streets untreated! He has developed this area and skills and is creating a team of dedicated doctors in service of mankind! In addition, he is also a voracious reader and prolific writer apart from being a reviewer and editorial board member of various journals of high repute. His dream to develop laparoscopic and robotic surgery for kidney and liver transplantation and develop living donor liver transplantation will soon become a reality and patients and medical fraternity will ever remember him for this services!

OLLE RINGDÉN

He received his basic medical education and training in general surgery at

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. After receiving Doctorate in Immunology, he

pursued post-doc research in his parent institute and The Fred Hutchinson Cancer

Research Center at Seattle, USA. After several years of research experience he

dedicated himself to his roots in Sweden. With passion and dedication towards

clinical immunology he climbed the academic ladder to reach the position of

Medical Director at Centre for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation at Huddinge

University Hospital, Sweden. His contribution towards the establishment of

Transplant Immunology, particularly in bone marrow transplantation was

recognized by his institute by giving the rare honor of naming his lab as Olle

Ringdén Laboratory in 2012.

He has been responsible for training many post-doc researchers and young

aspirants in the field of bone marrow transplantation, for creating Nordic and

Scandinavian Bone Marrow transplant registries and many other professional

societies. Apart from authoring atleast 800 research papers, being a member on

editorial board of several journals, he is one of the highest cited authors in his field of

specialization.

Year 2013

KOICHI TANAKA

He started his career in the field of Medicine at Kyoto University, Japan. He rose to

the position of Professor and Director of the department of Transplantation and

Immunology at Kyoto University hospital after a hard labor of about 25 years and

soon became the Hospital Director in the year 2001. He has been instrumental in

developing the Foundation for Kobe International Medical Alliance and Foundation

for Biomedical Research and Innovation in Japan.

His unparalleled contribution in developing and establishing liver transplantation not

only in Japan but Asia as well will be important historical milestone in the welfare of

patients suffering from end stage liver failure! He has been honored with several

prestigious awards like Uehara award, Takeda Science award, Keio Medical

Science Award and Lifetime achievement award by Asian Society and has about

300 published articles in English literature alone.

YEAR 2015

SHIMON SAKAGUCHI

He received his basic medical education and training in Pathology at Kyoto University Medical School. He has worked extensively in wide areas of Blood transfusion services, Pathology, Infectious diseases, Immunology and Rheumatology. After gaining strong ground in these subjects in his own country, he went to US to gain further experience at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Stanford University Medical Center and Scripps Research Institute for some time. He came back to his roots in Japan to work in Experimental Pathology and Immunology. With intense hard work and wide experience he was elevated to the Chair of Director of Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University. Currently he is working as Vice-Director of the Immunology Frontier Research Center of Osaka University and also as Adjunct Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, US. His brilliant scholastic career started with the Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award in Biomedical Science in 1986 to continue receiving several awards and honors from his own country like Takeda Medical Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from the Government of Japan, Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor, Japan Academy Award and others, to name a few.

He is on the editorial board of several journals like Science, Journal of Experimental Pathology and eLife. The history pages in transplantation immunobiology will remember him for his outstanding research on Regulatory T cells for immune tolerance and homeostasis for realizing the Utopian dream of transplant tolerance, the ultimate hope for transplant recipients and physicians!

YEAR 2016

SHIMON SLAVIN

Currently serving as the Medical & Scientific Director of the International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy (CTCI) in Israel, he received his basic medical education at the Hadassah Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem in 1967. After receiving training in clinical immunology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford University, and Seattle's Bone Marrow Transplant Center, USA, he gifted your country with its first bone marrow transplantation unit in his own alma mater in 1978. He started stem cell transplantation in Israel in 1980 which now serves patients from all over the world. In addition he has enriched the globe by helping establish new transplant centers in Asia, South America and Europe.

He introduced successfully the use of donor lymphocyte infusion in 1987 and pioneered the use of adoptive allogeneic cell-mediated immunotherapy and cytokine activated lymphocytes, for treatment of cancers and for prevention of relapse, following stem cell transplantation for solid organ and hematologic malignancies. His innovative non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation has been the cornerstone of success in achieving transplantation tolerance, the Utopian dream for all! More recently he introduced the use of personalized tumor cell vaccines and cell therapy for certain malignancies and AIDS. His active interest in using mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) in regenerative medicine, including neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, spinal injury, for cartilage repair and new bone formation, diabetes mellitus and to develop innovative cost-effective modalities for patients is worthy to be noted by the world. He has authored 4 books and more than 650 scientific publications and is on the editorial board of several journals.

1981 Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, established by the Government of Gujarat with limited autonomy within the administration of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad.

1982 Transplantation Immunology Laboratory established in collaboration with Transplantation Immunology Laboratory of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

1983 International Conference on Kidney Diseases and Hypertension hosted by the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad.

Approved by National Board of Examinations, Delhi as superspeciality training centre in Nephrology.

Research Association was established.

1984 Departments of Urosurgery, Renal Transplantation, Anaesthesia and Obstetrics & Gynecology were established.

1985 Indian Journal of Nephrology and Bulletin of the Institute started by Research and Publication Department of the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre with Dr. H. L. Trivedi as its founding Chief Editor.

Recognized by the Gujarat University as Super-Specialty Centre in D.M. Nephrology.

Dr. V.G. Mavalankar Gold Medal established. First medal awarded to Dr. R.K. Sharma

1986 Autonomy was granted by the government of Gujarat and Institute was registered as a trust and society under Society Registration Act.

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Recognized as Institute of National Importance by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. ofIndia.

Indian Society of Organ Transplantation was established with Dr. H. L. Trivedi as Founding Secretary.

1987 First successful NHB cadaver renal transplantation performed. Dr. V.G. Mavalankar Gold Medal awarded to Dr. Veena Shah.

1988 Foundation stone of new premises laid down by His Excellency, the Governor of Gujarat, Shri R. K. Trivedi.

The Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre hosted the first annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation.

1989 Blood Bank and Drug Bank inaugurated by His Excellency, the Governor of Gujarat, Shri R. K. Trivedi.

Construction of new premises started.

1990 Approved by National Board of Examinations as superspecialty training centre in Urology.

IKDRC Staff Co-operative Credit & Supply Society'' established.

S. M. Patel elected as Secretary, ISOT.

1992 The construction of new premises completed.

Institute shifted to its new premises. Sushruta Study Centre established. Dr. V. R. Shah elected as a Secretary.

1993 Departments of Pediatric Urology and Critical Care established.

Ambulance services established.

1994 GMDC Lithotripsy Centre established.

Poor Patients' Relief Fund'' started.

1995 Dr. H. L. Trivedi elected as President, ISOT. 1996 First International Congress on Transplantation & Kidney Diseases held.

1997 Institute of Transplantation Sciences established.

First Brain-dead heart beating cadaver renal transplantation performed.

1998 Second International Congress on Transplantation & Kidney Diseases held.

Maharshi Sushruta Award for research in transplantation biology established and first awards given to Prof. Alexander Bishop from Australia, and Profs. Veena Shah, S.M. Patel and A.S. Sane from IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad.

2000 Third International Congress on Transplantation & Kidney Diseases held.

Construction of the Institute of Transplantation Sciences started.

2002 “Transplantation Update 2002” - Conference on Organ and Cell Transplantation held in December 2002

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and Nobel Laureate (1996, Medicine and Physiology),Prof. R. M. Zinkernagel visited the Institute on thisoccasion.

Ambulance services further developed.

Approved by Indian College of Pathologists as the First Superspeciality Training Centre for Renal andTransplant Pathology of India. Construction of the Institute of Transplantation Sciences completed.

Transplantation India'' Journal started by the Research and Publication Department.

Dr. V.G.Mavalankar Gold Medal awarded to Dr. Aruna Vanika on December, 2002.

2003 Dr. H. L. Trivedi and Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre felicitated with ''Swami Vivekananda Sadbhav Sewa'' Award.

Institute of Transplantation Sciences inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi on 11th April, 2003.

2004 “Prope Tolerance” revised protocol was implemented successfully. 2005 The first dual organ and dual cell transplant of the world, which consisted of pancreas, kidney and bone

marrow and splenic cells was performed by our team from cadaver donor in to a patient with diabetic nephropathy with CRF on night of 14th February and morning of 15th February, 2005.

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery established in September 2005.

IV International Congress on Kidney Diseases on November 11-13, 2005.

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th“Sandipani Rushi Gnyaanpeeth Sanman” established and given away on 11 November, 2005.

th“Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanman” given away on 11 November, 2005.

Dr. V.G.Mavalankar Gold Medal awarded to Dr Pranjal Modi.

Transplantation Research Biology Awards and Awards for Cadaver Organ Transplantation given away- 11th November, 2005.

“Stem Cell Research Centre” inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi on 11th N o vember, 2005.

The first donor- specific human embryonic stem cell derived hematopoietic stem cell transplantation performed in a renal transplant patient successfully without using any immunosuppression in an African

thpatient with his sister as a donor on 19 December, 2005.

st “Reminiscences 2005” -31 December, 2005.

2006 The first donor- specific human embryonic stem cell derived hematopoietic stem cells transplantation performed in autoimmune disorders and Regenerative Medicine.

Certificate Course for Dialysis Technicians started in January 2006.

nd thKidney Rally organized for the first time on World Kidney Day on 2 Thursday of 8 March, 2006.

thSecond Cadaver Organ Transplantation Meet – 14 May, 2006.

“Bhagwan Dhanvantari Sanshodhan Sanman” for outstanding research activities given to Drs. Feroz

Aziz, Vineet Mishra, Pranjal Modi, Aruna Vanikar and Shruti Dave.

stDr Pranjal Modi won 1 Prize at West Zone –USI annual conference.

Institute of Transplantation Sciences name of As “Dr. H. L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation sciences” August 2006.

CME on Renal and Transplantation Pathology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Preventive Nephrology, th th4 – 5 October, 2006.

th th th17 Annual Conference of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, 6 – 8 October, 2006.

th“Maharshi Sushruta Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan” given away on 7 October, 2006.

th“Sandipani Rushi Gnyaanpeeth Sanmaan” given away on 7 October 2006.

st“Reminiscences 2006” - 31 December, 2006.

2007 “Human adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells” generated in the lab and used in clinic for the th

first time in history of transplantation biology of the world- 14 February, 2007.

nd nd thKidney Rally organized for 2 time on World Kidney Day on 2 Thursday of 9 March, 2007.

st th1 batch of Dialysis Technicians conferred certificates- 24 March, 2007.

stICU on wheels procured with M.P. funds of Shree L.K. Advani- 1 March, 2007.

thBlood Bank van procured – 27 March, 2007.

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st“Bhagwaan Mahaveer Karuna Sewa Sanmaan” given away- 31 March, 2007.

Combined successful thymic and kidney transplantation in a 13 years old boy from 52 years old st rddeceased donor performed for the 1 time in history of Transplantation Biology- 23 May, 2007.

thTeam led by Prof. Veena R. Shah returned from Karolinska Institute after 3 months training- 19 June, 2007.

thThird Gujarat Cadaver Organ Transplantation Meet organized- 28 July, 2007.

Insulin making stem cells generated without using any xenogeneic material for the first time in history th nd of stem cell research, in our lab and successfully used in clinic-15 August, 2007 and 2 October,

2007.

thFirst Nursing Meet of Gujarat state organized on Cadaver Transplantation- 29 November, 2007.

th nd“Transplantation Update 2007” organized- 30 November to 2 December, 2007.

st stDr. H.L. Trivedi Gold Medal” established on 1 December, 2007 and 1 medal given to Dr. Veenaben R. Shah, Deputy Director of the institute.

64- slice CT Scan from Siemen's Co. Germany purchased and installed, Dec. 2007.

st“Reminiscences 2007” -31 December, 2007.

st2008 Collaboration with Prof. Paul Terasaki Foundation Lab- 1 February, 2008.

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nd rd th2 and 3 batch conferred certificates as Dialysis Technicians- 6 February, 2008.

thFirst batch of Nurse Clinicians conferred certificates - 6 February, 2008.

thFirst Kidney Transplantation without immunosuppression performed on 14 February, 2008.

rd nd thKidney Rally organized for 3 time on World Kidney Day on 2 Thursday of 13 March, 2008.

st1 Liver transplantation of Gujarat state and in public sector of the country performed successfully, from deceased donor Chaturbhai Pansuria and transplanted in to Smt. Kamlaben Punjabhai Vaghela, 28th May, 2008.

th th4 Gujarat Cadaver Organ Transplantation Meet organized- 15 June, 2008.

- “Dadhichi Rushi Sewa Sanmaan” established to develop and boost cadaver organ transplantation program in Gujarat, the first award given to Dr Pranjal Modi

stReminiscences 2008”- 31 December, 2008

th th 2009 “Transplantation Update 2009” - 9 to 11 January, 2009.

Doctorate of Sciences (Honoris Causa) awarded by Hon'ble Vice President of India, Shree Hamid Ali th

Ansari at Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University of Lucknow on 7 January, 2009.

th nd th4 Kidney Rally on World Kidney Day on 2 Thursday of 12 March, 2009.

rdPath-breaking successful generation of cardiomyocytes from adipose tissue, 23 July, 2009.

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Institute files 2 Indian and International Patents on 'Insulin Making Stem Cells' & 'Mesenchymal Stemth

Cells for Transplantation Tolerance', 24 September, 2009.

“Dadhichi Rushi Sewa Sanman given to Shree Nilesh Mandlewala, industrialist, Drs. Vatsa Patel and th

Prashant Patel from Surat on 27 November, 2009.

nd2010 Reminiscences 2009” -2 January, 2010.

th th“Transplantation Update 2010” - 12 to 14 February, 2010.

st nd1 Lap. Kidney transplantation of the country and 2 in the world performed by Dr. Pranjal Modi on

thRameshji Dabhi, 48 yrs/M from deceased donor,15 February, 2010.

Dr Pranjal Modi won “Brij Kishor Patna Prize” at annual meeting of Urological Society of India for his paper “Control of renal pedicle by LigaSure for pre-transplant native kidney nephrectomy- a

preliminary experience”.

Deputy Director, Dr. Veenaben Shah felicitated on International Women/s Day by Udgam Charitableth

Trust of Gandhinagar for her contributions in the field of Anesthesia in Gujarat, 8 March, 2010.

World Kidney Day Celebrated in a unique way by performing 10 Kidney & 1 Liver Transplantation thfrom 2 Deceased & 6 Living donors - 11 March, 2010.

th th4 Batch Conferred Certificates as Dialysis Technicians, 15 April, 2010.

Transplant surgeon and Urologist Dr. Pranjal Modi invited as Visiting Prof. at JIPMER, Pondicherry, April, 2010.

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rdNew Lithotripter- Lithoscope, Siemens, Germany installed on 3 May, 2010.

thFirst Non-Heart Beating Liver Transplantation of India, 24 May, 2010.

thKnow your kidney- Gujarati website by Dr. Sanjay Pandya launched by Dr. H.L.Trivedi, 12 September, 2010.

stPatents: Neuronal Stem cells filed in India, 31 July,'10, MSC for transplantation tolerance and

th thinsulin making stem cells, filed in US, 15 September,'10 and in Europe, 15 October, 2010.

th - th“International Workshop on Advanced Laparoscopic Urological Surgery” on 9 10 , October, 2010.

th th4 Cadaver Organ Transplantation Meet organized, 27 November, 2010.

stReminiscences 2010” -31 December, 2010.

2011 Prof. Veena R Shah, Deputy Director was awarded with 'Certificate of Excellence' by Gujarat st

University for her precious services as a teacher in medical education on 1 January, 2011.

th th“Transplantation Update 2011” organized from 7 to 9 January, 2011.

Prof. H.L. Trivedi honored with “Shri Kanjibhai Desai Gujarat Pratibha Award” by Vishwa Gujarati nd

Samaj, Ahmedabad, 22 January, 2011.

Prof. Pranjal modi won “ Brij Kishor Patna Prize” for second consecutive year at annual meeting of Urological Society of India at Kolkata for his paper titled “Laparoscopic kidney transplantation- first 17 cases”.

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rdDr. Vivek B. Kute, 3 year resident in Nephrology received a travel grant and scholarship to attend

thWorld Congress of Nephrology from 8 to 12 April, 2011 at Vancouver, Canada.

Felicitation by “Divyabhaasker” newspaper as one of the “100 Most powerful persons of Gujarat” thfor his development of Nephrology and Transplantation Services in India, 29 April, 2011.

Prof. Modi was also invited as an operating faculty at Uroworkshop-2011 (International live operative th th

workshop on Female Urology, Laser Prostatectomy, and RIRS) on 16 - 17 April 2011 at Pt. B. D. Sharma PGI of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana where he demonstrated laparoscopic repair for vesicovaginal fistula.

Prof. Pranjal Modi presented his work on laparoscopic kidney transplantation at the American th thTransplant Congress (ATC) at Philadelphia, USA held from 30 April and 4 May, 2011. This is the first

series of 17 patients in the world showing successful outcome of laparoscopic kidney transplantation. His poster was considered as “Poster of Distinction” in the congress.

Prof. Modi was invited as a visiting professor to mentor the surgeons of the kidney transplantation rd

department in Liverpool, UK in 3 week of May,'11 when 3 donor nephrectomies were performed. This was for the first time in Europe that pure retroperitoneoscopic living donor nephrectomy was carried

out.

Mr. Jignesh Dave technician from Transplant Immunology lab has been appointed as Member of theIndian Advisory Board of International Consortium for American Society of Clinical Pathology on 17th June,'11.

Felicitated on “Doctors' Day”, by Sterling Hospital, and by Government Medical College, Bhavnagar and

Sir Takhatsinhji General Hospital, Bhavnagar who jointly organized a Blood Donation Camp in Blood st

Bank, Sir Takhtasinhji General Hospital for “Rakta-Tula” of Dr. H. L. Trivedi. 1 July, 2011.

Organ Donation Awareness Workshop Organized in Maa Sharda Laxmi Auditorium of the institute jointly thby Govt. of India, Govt. of Gujarat and IKDRC-ITS, 10 September, 2011.

ndDr. J. Jayprakash, 2 Yr. Resident (Anaesthesia) won the T.N.JHA Gold Medal for the best paper at ISACON 2011, Mumbai.

IKDRC-ITS won the award of "Best Single Specialty Hospital-Nephrology-Urology in India, given by ICICI Lombard & CNBC TV18 India Health Care Awards. New Delhi, 22nd December 2011.

stReminiscences 2011” -31 December, 2011.

th2012 Prof. H.L. Trivedi honored with “NK Patang Gujarat Asmita Award 2012" in Medicine, Ahmedabad, 13 January, 2012.

Prof. Pranjal Modi invited on Editorial Board of “Transplantation” journal.

Prof. Pranjal Modi won “Chandigarh Best Video prize” at annual meeting of Urological Society of India at Bangaluru entitled “laparoscopic en bloc kidney transplant”.

nd thSport-Meet on World Kidney Day on 2 Thursday of 8 March, 2012.

Prof. H.L. Trivedi honored with “National Achievement Award for excellence in Medicine” (Special th

Contribution) the “Image Welfare Achievers Forum” in Mumbai, 14 March, 2012.

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Prof. H.L. Trivedi honored with “Neelkanth Patang Nagar Pratibha Award” Dharamdev InfrastructurethLtd. and Neelkanth group of Hotels, Ahmedabad at Karnavati Club on 20 May, 2012.

Dr. Trivedi Felicitated on “Doctors' Day”, by All World Gayatri Pariwar, Vadodara as Pioneer and st

Trendsetter in the field of Kidney Transplantation. 1 July, 2012.

st“Laparoscopic en bloc kidney transplantation” Dr. Pranjal Modi 1 Prize in the best video category in Urological Society of India Conference, Bangalore 2012.

Vivek Kute (Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation) got “Young Investigator's Award” for his paper on “Novel Strategy For Tolerance Induction In Living Donor Renal Transplantation” 24th International Congress of The Transplantation Society to be held in Berlin, Germany from July 15 - 19 2012.

Shruti Dave got President's Choice Award for “Stem Cells versus donor specific transfusions for tolerance induction in living donor renal transplantation: a single centre experience”. 24th International Congress of The Transplantation Society to be held in Berlin, Germany from July 15 - 19 2012.

th“Urology Workshop” organized from 28 September, 2012.

th th“Transplantation Update 2012” organized from 29 to 30 September, 2012. Prof. Pranjal Modi received Maharshi Sushruta Gyanpeeth Sanmaan” along with Prof. Kathryn Wood from England.

nd rd32 Foundation day - New Building in Pediatric Ward Opening from 23 October, 2012.

th th“World Organ Donation Day” 6 Cadaver Organ Transplantation Meet organized on 28 November,2012 and Dadhichee Rishi Sewa Sanmaan given to Mrs. Priyadarshini Shah, Transplant

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stReminiscences 2012” -31 December, 2012.

2013 Prof. H L Trivedi honored with “The Renny Abraham TANKER Foundation Love for Service Award” by th

Tanker Foundation, Chennai, 25 January, 2013.

Institute brought da Vinci Robotic surgical platform and performed robotic assisted kidney transplant on th26 January, 2013 in association with urology team from Henry Ford hospital, Detroit.

Shruti Dave got “The Muthoot M. George Memorial TANKER & Kerala Kidney Research Foundation th

Young Investigator Award” by Tanker Foundation, Chennai, 25 January, 2013.

IKDRC-ITS won the award of "Best Single Specialty Hospital-Nephrology-Urology in India, given by thICICI Lombard & CNBC TV18 India Health Care Awards. New Delhi, 9 March, 2013.

IKDRC-ITS Established yet another World Record Of 10 Cross-Over Transplants To Celebrate World thKidney Day, 14 March, 2013.

Prof. H L Trivedi honored with 'Gujarat Ratna' Life for Innovation Award by Gujarat Innovation Society th

(GIS Ahmedabad, 15 April, 2013.Prof. Pranjal Modi was invited as guest speaker at American Transplant Congress at Seattle and as visiting professor at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan in May 2013.

Shruti Dave (Junior Scientific Officer) got Young Investigator's Award” for her paper on “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Induced In-Vitro Generation Of Regulatory T-Cells: Future Novel Cellular Therapy For

thTolerance Induction In renal Transplantation” at 12 Congress of the Cell Transplant Society, Milan,Italy, 7 to 11 July, 2013.

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Prof. Pranjal Modi delivered Prof. P. B. Sivraman Endowment Guest Lecture and received Gold Medalth th

for the year 2013 on 13 July at the 24 annual conference of the Association of Southern Urologists, South Zone-Urological Society of India.

Prof. Pranjal Modi was invited to deliver a lecture on “Laparoscopic and robotic assisted kidney transplantation” at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm in August, 2013.

Prof. Pranjal Modi received “Urology gold medal” of the West-Zone chapter of Urological Society of India rd that 23 Annual Conference by his Excellency, the Governor of Chattisgarh Shri Shekhar Dutt on 26

September, 2013.

th th“Transplantation Update 2013” organized from 18 to 20 October, 2013.

stReminiscences 2013” -31 December, 2013.

2014 Prof. H L Trivedi honored with “Excellence Award in Health Services”- Year 2012-2013 by Ashirwad th

Education Trust, Ahmedabad, 8 February, 2014.

thProf. H.L. Trivedi honored with “Sanskar Choro” by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) 11 Feb. 2014.

Prof. Pranjal Modi has received Millennium International Urology Congress (MIUC) scholarship at annual meeting of Urological Society of India at New Delhi.

Dr Javid Qadri won Dr. G. M. Phadke Travelling fellowship at USICON, New Delhi. He went to Prague later in the year.

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Prof. Pranjal Modi on editorial board of journal “Review in Transplantation” and continue to be on editorial rd th

board of “Transplantation”(3 year) and “Indian Journal of Urology”(4 year).

Prof. Pranjal Modi was invited as a guest speaker at Ramchandra Medical College and at MadrasMedical College in Feb., 2014.

Prof. Pranjal Modi was invited as a guest speaker and demonstrated several surgeries in live operative workshop organized by Asam Urological Society at Guwahati in Feb., 2014.

World Kidney Day' was celebrated with the launch of program “Kidney Bachavo Jivan Bachavo” (“Save stKidneys - Save Life”). We covered 5 major Centres of Gujarat. 21 February, 2014.

rdBhumi Pujan of Superspecialty Hospitals performed at Manjushree mill premises. 3 March, 2014.

World Kidney Day' was celebrated by us with felicitation of family members of Cadaver Organ Donors. th

13 March, 2014.

th“Journal of Organ Dysfunction and Management” released on the occasion of World Kidney Day, 13 March, 2014.

Prof. Pranjal Modi was invited by the President of Urological Society of India to talk at European Association of Urology at Stockholm in April, 2014.

Shruti Dave (Junior Scientific Officer) got Young Investigator's Award for her paper on “Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induced In Vitro Generation of Regulatory T-Cells: A Cell-Based Therapy to Promote Transplantation Tolerance” and Dr. Vivek Kute awarded travelling grant for his paper on “increasing

st access to kidney transplantation in countries with limited resources” at 51 ERA-EDTA Congress,

rdAmsterdam, 3 June, 2014.

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ITS Foundation day' was celebrated by us with felicitation of Family Members of Cadaver Organ Donors. th9 June, 2014.

th stWorld Transplant Congress at San Francisco, US, from 26 to 31 July, 2014 :

4Prof. Pranjal Modi was invited as a guest speaker on “Advances in laparoscopic kidney transplantation”

4Prof. Aruna Vanikar was the advisor on panel of Pathology sessions and Chairperson of a jury for selecting outstanding research abstracts. She was awarded poster of excellence for both her papers entitled “Immunomodulatory role of T-regulatory cells in renal transplantation” and “Early experience with thymic and portal co-infusion of donor adipose-derived mesenchymal, hematopoietic and insulin secreting cells pre-transplant and regulatory T-cells posttransplant.”

4Prof. Pankaj Shah was awarded “poster of excellence” for his poster on “Significant benefits after renal transplantation in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic kidney disease”.

4Prof. Manoj Gumber was awarded “poster of excellence” for his poster on “Implications of flow cross-match in patients with donor-specific antibodies subjected to renal transplantation- A preliminary single centre experience”.

4Prof. Rashmi Patel presented a poster o “De novo focal segmental glomerulsoclerosis in renal allograft-histological presentation and clinical correlation-single centre experience.”

4Shruti Dave (Junior Scientific Officer) got Young Investigator's Award for her paper on “Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induced In Vitro Generation of Antigen Specific Regulatory T-Cells Containing CD4+CD8+ Population: A Cell-Based Therapy To Promote Transplantation Tolerance”.

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th Prof. Pranjal Modi was awarded for “Excellence in Medical Field” at 112 Annual day celebration of th Ahmedabad Medical Association on 14 July, 2014.

th th 34 Foundation day (9 day of Navratri and Dussehra) Dept. of Pathology & Lab. Medicine moved in new building in premises inaugurated by Honorable Health Minister, Shree Nitinbhai Patel and Shree

rdJayantibhai Barot, Ex-M.P. (Rajya Sabha) on 3 October, 2014.

Prof. Pranjal Modi delivered a lecture on “Advances in laparoscopic kidney transplantation” at St. Jame's th University, Leeds, UK on 5 October, 2014.

Prof. Pranjal Modi performed the first keyhole (laparoscopic) kidney transplantation in Europe th

(Liverpool, UK). BBC broadcasted news on 9 October, 2014. Link http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29556902.

th World's first successful robotic dual kidney transplantation was carried out by Prof. Pranjal Modi on 10 November, 2014. Team from Guy's hospital, London, UK came to learn robotic kidney transplant.

Prof. Pranjal Modi was honored for his work for development on deceased donor transplantation at nd th th

Vadodara (22 June), at Air Force station, Jamnagar (5 December) and at Surat (20 December).

st Reminiscences 2014” - 31 December, 2014.

2015 th th- “Transplantation Update 2015” organized from 9 to 11 January, 2015.

th st- “Ram Kathaa” discourse by Shri Morari Bapu from 24 January to 1 February, 2015, with courtesy of Joiser family.

“Workshop: Master Class In Pediatric Urology” organized on 28 - 29 January, 2015

- Prof. H L Trivedi honored with “Sandipani Vishishta Gaurav Award” Sandipani Ashram, Porbandar,thGujarat, 25 January, 2015.

- Prof. H L Trivedi honored with “Padma Shri” for Distinguished Services in the Medicine by Government thof India, New Delhi, 8 April, 2015.

th- Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences (GUTS) inaugurated on 20 June, 2015.

th- First three paramedical courses of the University started on 5 September, MSc Nursing (Medicine and Surgery), PG Diploma in Dialysis Technology, PG Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology.

th- ‘Organ Donation Day' celebrated by felicitation of family members of cadaver organ donors on 13

August, 2015.

th- Second Edition of Prof. Trivedi's Autobiography “Tryst With Destiny” released on his 84 birthday by Shree Abhijat Joshi, Professor in Creative Writing at Otterbein College, Ohio, USA and script writer of

thbest BBC Plays and Hindi Movies like Lage Rahoo Munnabhai, PK, Three Idiots, etc. -.19 September, 2015.

- Shree Maanbhai Bhatt Smaarak Sanmaan, Bhavnagar at the hands of Rev. Shree Morari Bapu –honor th

to Prof. Trivedi, 28 October, 2015

- Patent on method of making mesenchymal stem cells from adipose tissue- the first patent on stem cells thgranted to the IKDRC-ITS, on 5 November, '15 - Inventors Dr. Trivedi and Dr. Vanikar gave away the

patent to the institute on promissory note of Re. 1/-

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- Peripheral dialysis centres opened in 14 districts of Gujarat, with efforts of Shree H. P. Parmar, from January onwards till the end of the year.

- Journal “Kidney Disease and Transplantation” started by the Institute handed over to Biomed Central, owned by Springer, Europe.

st- Reminiscences 2015” -31 December, 2015.

MAHARSHI SUSHRUTA GNYAANPEETH SANMAAN is jointly sponsored by G.R. Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) and Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS), and one of its original principal donors Shree Ashwin Mafatlal Mehta, who is also member of the Governing Body of IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad.