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C. Ramachandran Memorial Lecture

The C Ramachandran Memorial Lecture which was instituted in 2001 is the highlight of the Annual Foundation Day which is held in the last week of November. C.Ramachandran was a brilliant student of Madras Medical College, whose promising career was unfortunately cut short by his premature demise while he was still a student. Mrs. Seetha Gopalan and Dr C. Gopalan initiated this series of annual lectures with an endowment in memory of their late son. The lectures in these series have been delivered by:

  • Dr M.K. Bhan (Former Prof.of Paediatrics, AIIMS & currently Secretary, Deptt of Biotechnology) 2001


  • Dr N.K. Ganguly (Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research) 2002


  • Dr R.A. Mashelkar (Director-General, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) 2003


  • Dr M.S. Swaminathan, (President, Dr M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation), delivered the inaugural address of NFI's Silver Jubilee symposium 2004.


  • Dr Ashish Bose Developmental Transition: Demographic Context. 2005


  • Dr D Banerji Primary Health Care in India: How to achieve what Bhore Committee envisaged? 2006


  • Dr V Prakash (Director, CFTRI, Mysore) 2007


  • Dr Prakash Shetty (Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute of Human Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK) 2008


  • Dr A V Kurpad (Dean, St John's research Institute, Bangalore) 2009