Mangaluru's Dr. Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga listed in World Rankings of Top 2% scientists
Mangaluru: Dr. Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Senior Radiobiologist and in charge of Research at Mangalore Institute of Oncology, has featured in the ‘World Rankings of Top 2% in a study conducted by Stanford University, USA and published in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology. With a score of 3.58, Dr. Baliga is in the top 1.38% in the world; seventh in India, and first in the state of Karnataka in the field of Oncology & Carcinogenesis. The US-based Stanford University created a database of at least 1 lakh top scientists around the world and analyzed information on citations like the H-index, co-authorship, and composite indicator, from SCOPUS data provided by Elsevier for career-long impact by tabulating data from 1960 until the end of May 6, 2020.
Dr. Baliga is the eldest son of Popular travel’s proprietor Shri Prabhakar Baliga and Prema Baliga. He did his schooling and undergraduate studies at St Aloysius College and Masters in Biosciences from Mangalore University. He did his doctoral studies in radiation biology from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India with research on anticancer and radio modulatory properties of novel agents in 2003. He received advanced training at Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, and a second post-doctorate from the University of Illinois, Chicago in areas of cancer prevention and metastasis.
Dr. Baliga also has adjunct degrees in Masters of business administration in education management, from Alagappa University and Masters in Psychology and Psychotherapy from Kuvempu University. In addition to this Dr Baliga has been one of the founding members of the UNESCO Bioethics in India and has been active in studies on ethical issues in health care and Oncology specific. He has done advanced research training in pharmacogenomics at the University of Delhi, South Campus under the prestigious Indian National Academy of Sciences fellowship.
In a nearly three-decade-long scientific career, Dr. Baliga has carried out studies in the areas of cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention, radiation-modulation, Onco-psychology, cancer ethics, cancer education, health economics, and pharmacovigilance. He has published around 175 scientific articles in national and international journals and 85 textbook chapters in the above-said areas and is on the editorial and review boards of various national and international journals. He was inducted as a fellow in “The International Institute of Organizational Psychological Medicine (IIOPM), Melbourne Australia in 2019 for his work in health and workplace psychology. He has mentored 57 students to date and most of his students are in premier institutes of Europe, the USA, and Australia.
Dr. Suresh Rao the director of Mangalore Institute of Oncology, said that Dr. Baliga is today one of the few trained radiobiologists in the world and that his research in the area of radiation/chemo modulation with nutraceutical agents and chronopharmacology are ahead of times, cost-effective, and helps cancer patients immensely. Dr Rao also expressed that MIO has been focusing on research that is important to our local society, with effective integration of Ayurveda and Yoga in post-treatment recovery and that Dr. Baliga’s contribution to the objective and goals of our hospital are important. Baliga’s contribution to the objective and goals
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T'gana BC panel seeks reports over infant's death, family alleges caste abuse
Hyderabad (PTI): The Telangana Commission for Backward Classes on Monday sought reports from state government officials on the death of an infant following alleged assault and caste abuse against her family members in Nagarkurnool district while visiting a temple fair.
In separate letters, Commission Chairman G Niranjan urged Endowments Department Commissioner S Harish and Nagarkurnool district Collector Badavath Santhosh to furnish the reports within three days.
Niranjan drew the officials' attention to media reports on the death of the two-month-old baby at Kummera village in the district and alleged caste discrimination and denial of entry to the temple fair to the baby's family belonging to a BC community.
BJP OBC Morcha's state unit president G Anand Goud alleged inadequate response by the police in the incident and demanded a transparent investigation into the incident.
Alleging that the deceased baby's father was attacked in the incident, he also demanded action against the attackers.
Goud told reporters that BJP's state unit president N Ramachander Rao would visit the village on February 24 and meet the baby's family members.
Meanwhile, a BRS delegation met DGP B Shivadhar Reddy and demanded a comprehensive inquiry into the incident.
The BRS leaders sought action against a person who allegedly attacked the infant's parents.
BC associations have held protests over the past few days regarding the alleged caste discrimination against the deceased infant's family members.
Police said on Sunday that four persons were arrested in connection with the cases registered after the family alleged that the baby died following an "assault" by a group of villagers. The family also alleged that they were abused in the name of caste in the incident on February 18.
However, a villager, part of the group, lodged a counter-complaint with the police the same day, alleging that he was attacked with stones during a scuffle with the family, sustaining a head injury, following which a case was registered.
The infant died on February 21 and her mother, who belongs to an SC community, also lodged a complaint alleging her daughter died due to the physical assault on the family by some villagers, police said.
