M. N. Ghosh
Manindra Nath Ghosh was an Indian pharmacologist who was the first director of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research in Puducherry, India.
Early life and education
After attending R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital for his undergraduate studies, Ghosh moved on to do his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University College London, graduating in 1956. His grandfather Prof. Rakhaldas Ghosh was the Professor and Head of the Materia Medica, Calcutta Medical College. His father Prof. Birendra Nath Ghosh was also a very renowned pharmacologist of India.Career
Ghosh was the author of Fundamentals of Experimental Pharmacology. The book was originally written in 1971, and has been published in seven editions since. Ghosh's work was cited by James Black (pharmacologist) in his acceptance of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.As a result of his work, Ghosh was a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award in 1980.