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Global Health Matters

September - October, 2007  |  Volume 6, Issue 5

NIH Delegation Meet With India's Political and Scientific Leadership

Fogarty's Director Dr. Roger I. Glass and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering's Director Dr. Roderic Pettigrew accompanied Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, on his Oct. 4-5, 2007 visit to New Delhi, India. The NIH delegation met with India's senior political and scientific leadership, including India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal, and the Minister of Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss, and the Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology Dr. Majaraj K. Bhan.

NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni
speaks to the media during his
visit to India.

Dr. Zerhouni gave two widely attended and well received keynote lectures--at a national symposium on translational research hosted by India's Department of Biotechnology and at the Indian Council of Medical Research Annual Oration Day. In New Delhi, Dr. Zerhouni and Dr. Glass also met with the President of the Public Health Foundation of India, the President of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, senior NIH grantees and NIH trainees, and the U.S. Ambassador to India.

Fogarty played a key role in organizing all aspects of Dr. Zerhouni's recent visit.