SP Kalantri

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Research

The fall of the MD thesis

Another DNB thesis lands in my inboxโ€”joining its MD cousins. My task is to evaluate it. A formality, really. The postgraduate has written it, the professor has supervised itโ€”or so the paperwork claims. I enter the username, type the password, and open the fileโ€”without hope. An immaculate PDF appears. Crisp formatting. Polished grammar. Elegant English. …

Covid

Ethical Challenges of Research in a Pandemic

The pressure for an effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19 is high. There are more than 2,000 studies on COVID-19 across the world; many of these are trials on humans to develop vaccines, and to test the efficacy of drugs for this new disease. The urgency of this pandemic presents new, acute ethical challenges in …

Covid

Clinical Research during Covid Era

On 18 June 2020, Dr. C. S. Pramesh, the Director of the Tata Memorial Hospital texted me a message and then called me asking if I would be willing to do a talk on Covid and research during Pandemic. A day after. Although I had little time to prepare, I didnโ€™t blink an eyelid to …