Amita Aggarwal

Amita Aggarwal
Born 1960
India
Residence Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Known for Studies in autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist, rheumatologist and a professor at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Known for her studies in autoimmune rheumatic diseases, Aggarwal is a recipient of the Shakuntala Amir Chand Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India as well as the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences in 2004.

Biography

AIIMS Delhi

Amita Aggarwal, born in 1960,[1] earned her medical degree of MBBS as well as a post-graduate degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and secured the degree of DM in clinical immunology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI).[2] Her career started at SGPGI as a member of faculty in 1996 and she holds the position of a professor at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology.[3] In between, she did advanced training in rheumatology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1995 on an APLAR fellowship and at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center on a research associateship from the Department of Biotechnology.[2]

Legacy

Aggarwal, who is known for her research in the field of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, has identified the presence of IgM rheumatoid factor demonstrated by ELISA is an indicator of a severe clinical expression of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.[4] She also postulated that the activation of complement by an alternate pathway is more important than activation by the classical pathway in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and these findings have assisted in a wider understanding of autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as Juvenile idiopathic arthritis and their pathogenesis. Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 384 of them.[5]

Aggarwal heads the regional diagnostic centre of the Foundation for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (FPID),[6] an international organization established to combat primary immunodeficiencies (PID).[7] She is the resource person for PID Facilities in India[8] and is the president of the Indian Rheumatology Association.[9] She is also the national coordinator for India of the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization and has conducted several workshops and courses of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in rheumatology.[10]

Awards and honors

Aggarwal received the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1998, for her studies in auto-immune rheumatic diseases and the ICMR honored her again in 2001 with the Dr. Kamala Menon Award.[11] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2004.[12] The award orations delivered by her include the Zydus Oration of the Indian Association of Rheumatology (2002), Dr. Coelho Memorial Lecturer (2005) of the Association of Physicians of India and the Kshanika Oration (2005) of ICMR.[13][14] The National Academy of Sciences, India elected her as a fellow in 2013[15] and she received the elected fellowship of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014.[16]

Selected bibliography

  • Verma, Anupam; Khetan, Dheeraj; Pandey, Prashant; Chaudhary, Rajendra; Aggarwal, Amita; Kumar, Raj (2010-07-01). "Transfusion-associated immunomodulation: Quantitative changes in cytokines as a measure of immune responsiveness after one time blood transfusion in neurosurgery patients". Asian Journal of Transfusion Science. 4 (2). doi:10.4103/0973-6247.67021.
  • Dhir, V; Misra, R; Agarwal, V; Lawrence, A; Aggarwal, A (2011-02-18). "Lupus pancreatitis – early manifestation of active disease". Lupus. 20 (5): 547–548. doi:10.1177/0961203310385165.
  • Sokka, Tuulikki; Kautiainen, Hannu; Pincus, Theodore; Verstappen, Suzanne MM; Aggarwal, Amita; Alten, Rieke; Andersone, Daina; Badsha, Humeira; Baecklund, Eva (2010-03-12). "Work disability remains a major problem in rheumatoid arthritis in the 2000s: data from 32 countries in the QUEST-RA Study". Arthritis Research & Therapy. 12: R42. doi:10.1186/ar2951. ISSN 1478-6354.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ↑ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017-11-12. Retrieved 2017-11-12.
  2. 1 2 "Current faculty". Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  3. ↑ "New Department for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Inaugurate". www.amrita.edu. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  4. ↑ "Citations 1998". www.icmr.nic.in. 1998. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  5. ↑ "On ResearchGate". On ResearchGate. 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  6. ↑ "FPID Centers in India". www.fpid.org. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  7. ↑ "WELCOME to FPID.ORG". www.fpid.org. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  8. ↑ "PID Facilities in India" (PDF). SGPGI. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  9. ↑ "IRA Executive Committee". www.indianrheumatology.org. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  10. ↑ "SOME FORTHCOMING SCIENTIFIC EVENTS" (PDF). Indian Council of Medical Research. 2010. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  11. ↑ "ICMR KSHANIKA ORATION AWARD" (PDF). Indian Council of Medical Research. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  12. ↑ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  13. ↑ "Kshanika Oration award" (PDF). SGPGI. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  14. ↑ "Awards 2005". www.icmr.nic.in. 2005. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  15. ↑ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
  16. ↑ "NAMS fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.

Further reading

  • "President's Message". Indian Rheumatology Association. 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  • Aggarwal, Amita (2011-09-04). "2S17 SGPGIMS" (YouTube video). TRACS India. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
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