National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad

National Institute of Nutrition
Motto To achieve optimal nutrition of vulnerable segments of population by 2020
Established 1918
Field of Research Nutrition
Director Dr. B. Sesikeran
Address Jamai-Osmania,
Hyderabad- 500 007
Location Hyderabad, India
Telephone 040-27008921
Operating Agency ICMR
Website http://www.ninindia.org/

The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is an Indian education and research facility located at Osmania University in Hyderabad. The institute operates under the Indian Council of Medical Research[1] for India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Its mission is to study nutritional needs in order to meet goals set by the government of India for its national nutrition policies.

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History

The Institute was founded in 1918 by Sir Robert McCarrison. It was originally a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu for the study of Beriberi, and was called the Beri-Beri Enquiry Unit.[2] McCarrison was invalided to Britain from 1920–1922, and in 1923 the enquiry was axed on financial grounds. It was restored two years later as the Deficiency Disease Inquiry, which McCarrison headed from 1925-1929.[3] The scope of the laboratory expanded to include all deficiency diseases, and around 1928-29 became the Nutrition Research Laboratories (NRL), with McCarrison as its first Director, until his retirement in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dr. W.R. Ackroyd.[2][3][4] The facility moved to Hyderabad in 1958 and in 1969 was renamed the National Institute of Nutrition.[2]

Activities

NIN offers advanced education courses and PhD program for nutrition and laboratory animal sciences. This institute also houses the Food and Drug Toxciology Research Centre, the National Centre for Laboratory Animal Science, and the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau. NIN has associated nutrition wards at various hospitals for the research in clinical nutrition, including the Niloufer Hospital for Women and Children, the Government Maternity Hospital, and the Osmania General Hospital.

References

  1. ^ About ICMR, Indian Council of Medical Research, http://www.icmr.nic.in/abouticmr.htm, retrieved 15 August 2010  ICMR's Institutes/Centres (scroll down page to find NIN)
  2. ^ a b c Down the memory lane, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India, http://www.ninindia.org/nin.htm, retrieved 12 August 2010 
  3. ^ a b Arnold, David (2000), Science, technology, and medicine in Colonial India, The New Cambridge History of India. Part III, Volume 5, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 201, 215, ISBN 0-521-56319-4, http://books.google.com/books?id=7bAxnPwOMd8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=science+technology+india&hl=en&ei=IW1kTMGdFYiiuAOhk52fCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false, retrieved 12 August 2010 
  4. ^ "Obituary: Sir ROBERT McCARRISON, C.I.E., M.D., D.Sc. L.L.D., F.R.C.P", British Medical Journal 1 (5186): 1663–1664, May 28, 1960, doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5186.1663, PMC 1967996, PMID 13856887, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1967996, retrieved 10 August 2010 

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