KC Singhal |
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| Born | 1941 Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Residence | Jaipur |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University, King George Medical College, Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner |
| Known for | Pharmacology & Pharmacovigilance |
Dr. Krishan Chandra Singhal (born 1941) is a distinguished Pharmacologist of India and has been serving as Founder Vice chancellor of the NIMS University, Jaipur, India
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Dr. Krishan Chandra Singhal was born on 16 June 1941 at Aligarh. He did High School and BSc from Aligarh Muslim University. During student life, he participated in many sports and won many prizes. He once secured 2nd position in a competition organised under “Physical Culture Test’ in 1957-58 session.[1] He did MBBS (1959 Batch) and MD (1968) from King George Medical College, Lucknow; PhD (1976) from Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner and DSc (2001) from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India [2][3]
He joined Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Assistant Research Officer under a project of Indian Council of Medical Research on January 29, 1968. He then worked as Demonstrator (May 15, 1968), appointed Lecturer (1969), Reader (March 30, 1979) and Professor (May 3, 1988). He became the ‘Chairman’, Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College from August 8, 1990 to August 7, 1996 and then from August 8, 1999 to August 7, 2002.[4]
He has made extensive and highly significant contributions in the field of pharmacology. He established new methods for screening antifilarial agents using Setaria cervi as test organism. He is one of the foremost pioneers in the field of Indian Pharmacovigilance and organised many scientific meets in the field of Pharmacovigilance. He founded the 'Society of Pharmacovigilance, India' (SoPI) in 1999.
He belonged to a family of learned physicians and scholars. This family is very well known in Aligarh as a “Doctor Family”. His father Dr. Ganga Prasad Gupta was a leading practitioner in Aligarh. The life-long companion, Professor Usha Singhal is a renowned name in the field of Physiology. All his children and their spouses (son-in-laws and daughter-in-law) are also physicians and doctors. Apart from them, Dr. Singhal’s brother and sister-in-law are also celebrated practitioners in Aligarh.[5]