Ritesh Agarwal (scientist)

Ritesh Agarwal is a Professor in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh, having research interests in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in the year 2020 for his contributions in the field of ABPA.^[1]

Ritesh Agarwal has published many research papers exploring the ABPA and novel criteria for the diagnosis and classification of ABPA.^[2]

Education[]

Ritesh Agarwal secured his M.B.B.S. degree in 1998 from Stanley Medical College, Chennai, and completed his Fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine from PGIMER in 2004.

Honours and recognitions[]

Besides the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Rohit Srivastava as been conferred several awards including the following:^[3]

ICMR Kamal Satbir Award for the year 2009
NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award (Medicine category) for the year 2011
ICMR Shakuntala Amir Chand Award for the year 2012
ICMR Chaturvedi Ghanshyam Das Jaigopal Memorial Award for the year 2019
Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians
Fellow of Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
Fellow of Indian Chest Society
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow.

References[]

^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. CSIR Human Resource Development Group. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
^ "Prof. Ritesh Agarwal awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for the year 2020 in Medical Sciences". Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ "Dr. Ritesh Agarwal, Professor". Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh. Retrieved 13 October 2021.

External links[]

Ritesh Agarwal publications indexed by Google Scholar

[1] "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. CSIR Human Resource Development Group. Retrieved 8 October 2021.

[2] "Prof. Ritesh Agarwal awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for the year 2020 in Medical Sciences". Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh. Retrieved 13 October 2021.

[3] "Dr. Ritesh Agarwal, Professor". Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh. Retrieved 13 October 2021.

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v t Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Science
1960s	R. B. Arora (1961) Bal Krishan Anand (1963) N. K. Dutta (1965) V. Ramalingaswami (1965) J. B. Chatterjea (1966) R.J. Vakil (1966) A. K. Basu (1967) M. J. Thirumalachar (1967) S. R. Mukherjee (1968) Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1968) S. Kalyanaraman (1969) Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1969)
1970s	J. R. Talwar (1970) O. M. Gulati (1971) A. K. Maiti (1971) N. R. Moudgal (1976)
1980s	P. R. Adiga (1980) T. Desiraju (1980) U. C. Chaturvedi (1981) Indira Nath (1983) J. N. Sinha (1984) B. S. Srivastava (1984) D. K. Ganguly (1985) S. S. Agarwal (1986) P. Seth (1986)
1990s	Maharaj Kishan Bhan (1990) Shashi Wadhwa (1991) U. N. Das (1992) N. K. Mehra (1992) G. P. Pal (1993) K. B. Sainis (1994) Y. D. Sharma (1994) S. K. Panda (1995) A. K. Tyagi (1995) V. Ravindranath (1996) S. K. Sarin (1996) S. K. Gupta (1997) Vijay Kumar (1997) G. Balakrish Nair (1998) C. H. Mohan Rao (1999)
2000s	Shahid Jameel (2000) Birendra Nath Mallick (2001) Sunil Pradhan (2002) C. S. Dey (2003) Anil Kumar Mandal (2003) C. E. Chitnis (2004) Javed Naim Agrewala (2005) V. S. Sangwan (2006) Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan (2007) Ravinder Goswami (2008) Santosh G. Honavar (2009)
2010s	Mitali Mukerji (2010) K. Narayanaswamy Balaji (2011) Sandip Basu (2012) Pushkar Sharma (2013) Anurag Agrawal (2014) Vidita Ashok Vaidya (2015) Niyaz Ahmed (2016) Amit Dutt (2017) Deepak Gaur (2017) Ganesan Venkatasubramanian (2018) Dhiraj Kumar (2019) Mohammad Javed Ali (2019)
2020s	Bushra Ateeq (2020) Ritesh Agarwal (2020) Jeemon Panniyammakal (2021) Rohit Srivastava (2021)