Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

Seal of CSTM
Established 1914
Director Nandita Basu (Ghorai)
Location Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Website www.stmkolkata.org//
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata. October 2014.

Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine (CSTM) is a medical institute from Kolkata, India dedicated in the filed of tropical disease.[1] It was established in 1914 by Leonard Rogers (1868-1962) of the Indian Medical Service, professor of pathology at the Calcutta Medical College.[2] It was, till 2003, affiliated with the historic University of Calcutta. Now it is under the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

Prominent researchers like U. N. Bramhachari, Ronald Ross worked in this institute.[3]

References

  1. David Arnold (2000). Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 9780521563192.
  2. Uma Dasgupta (2011). Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784-1947. Pearson Education India. p. 591. ISBN 9788131728185.
  3. "History of CSTM". stmkolkata.org. Retrieved 20 April 2014.

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