Top international award for PGIMER's Emeritus Professor

Emeritus Professor of Nephrology at PGIMER here Dr Kirpal Chugh, has been given the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Bywaters Award for his research in the field of acute kidney injury.
The award is named in honor of British physician who first described Acute Kidney Failure in patients with crush syndrome during the 1941 London Blitz.
Dr Chugh has received this award in recognition of the outstanding and sustained excellence of his research in the field of Acute Kidney Injury carried out for over three decades, a PGI release said here today.
The award was presented to him during the World Congress of Nephrology held at Cape Town, South Africa by Prof Giuseppe Remuzzi, President International Society of Nephrology, the release said.

The National Kidney Foundation of USA has considered Dr Chugh's contributions to the renal community in India as "most outstanding" and the International Society of Nephrology has included him amongst the first 50 legends in Nephrology world over whose life time work have been video recorded for the Video Legacy Project of the ISN.
Chugh is a world renowned nephrologist and is known as the Father of Nephrology in India having set up the first Department of Nephrology at the PGIMER, Chandigarh in 1963 and established the first nephrology training programme in 1969.
He is the recipient of a number of International and National awards, including Padamshree, Dr B C Roy National Award as an eminent Medical Man of the Country (1992) and Distinguished International Award by National Kidney Foundation of USA (1991).