Odisha native doctor Digambar Behera in research group of ICMR for Covid-19

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | April 09, 2020 IST

Bhubaneswar, April 9: Odisha native Digambar Behera who is also the PGIMER Chandigarh professor, has been nominated as a member of the clinical research group formulated under the National Task Force for Covid-19 by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The clinical research group will be led by AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria and its immediate priority is to establish an India COVID-19 clinical research collaborative network. A Padma Shri awardee, Behera was born in Cuttack district in 1953. He is an alumnus of SCB Medical College and Hospital and is known as a pioneer of lung cancer chemotherapy in the country.He joined the Department of Medicine at the PGI as a junior resident in 1978.

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