Calcutta_School_of_Tropical_Medicine

Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

Medical Research Institution located in Kolkata, India

Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine (CSTM) is a medical institute from Kolkata, India dedicated in the field of tropical disease.[1] It was established in 1914 by Leonard Rogers (1868–1962) of the Indian Medical Service, professor of pathology at the Calcutta Medical College.[2] It was, till 2003, affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Now it is under the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

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Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata, in October 2014.

Prominent researchers like U. N. Bramhachari, Ernest Muir, Ronald Ross, Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri,[3] Ram Narayan Chakravarti[4] and Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjee worked in this institute.[5]

Notable alumni

References

  1. [1]
    David Arnold (2000). Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 198. ISBN 9780521563192.
  2. [2]
    Uma Dasgupta (2011). Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784–1947. Pearson Education India. p. 591. ISBN 9788131728185.
  3. [3]
    "Deceased Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2016.[permanent dead link]
  4. [4]
    "Deceased Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  5. [5]
    "History of CSTM". stmkolkata.org. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
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