Vijay L. Kumar

Biography

Awards and Honors: British Government fellowship for training in Medical Education and Technology, 1990. Chandra Kanta Dandiya Prize of Prem Chand Dandiya Endowment Trust for best research publication in Pharmacology,1999. C.L. Malhotra Research Prize in Pharmacology by the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India for research, 2000. A.V. Tilak Parvathy Devi Prize by the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India for best research paper in endocrinology, 2006. Dev Raj Bajaj Research Prize by the Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India for the best research paper in developing a new technique, 2009. Member - National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, 2004. Member – National Academy of Sciences, India, 2007.

Research Interest

1. Anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of drugs and botanicals. 2. Molecular biology of steroid receptors, regulation of receptors and its relevance in hormone dependent cancers.