Indira Hinduja

Indira Hinduja
Born (1946-08-21) 21 August 1946
Shikarpur, British Sindh, British India
Alma materBombay University
Scientific career
FieldsInfertility
WorkplacesInkus Infertility Clinic, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai

Indira Hinduja (born 21 August 1946) is an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and infertility specialist based in Mumbai.[1] She pioneered the Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) technique resulting in the birth of India's first GIFT baby on 4 January 1988. Previously she delivered India's second test tube baby at KEM Hospital on 6 August 1986.[2] She is also credited for developing an oocyte donation technique for menopausal and premature ovarian failure patients, giving the country's first baby out of this technique on 24 January 1991.[3]

Academic career

Hinduja graduated from Topiwala National Medical College and B. Y. L. Nair Hospital, Bombay, in 1967. She subsequently obtained a Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1969), a Diploma in Family Planning (1970), and an MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1972) from the University of Bombay. In 1988, she received a PhD in Applied Biology from the University of Bombay for her thesis titled ‘‘Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer ’’. [4]

Hinduja has served as an honorary obstetrician and gynecologist at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre Mumbai.[5]

She was associated with Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, where she collaborated with the Institute for Research in Reproductive Health ( now the ICMR–National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health) on research in assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and embryo transfer.[6]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ↑ Profile of Dr. Indira Hinduja Archived 16 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine at Hinduja Hospital.
  2. ↑ "India First Test Tube Baby". New Straits Times. 8 August 1986.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Indira Ahuja Profile". NDTV Doctor. 20 July 2009.
  4. ↑ Chattopadhyay, Anjana (2018). Women Scientists in India (PDF). National Book Trust. pp. 154–159. ISBN 9788123781440. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Indira Hinduja - Honorary Gynaecologist (IVF and Infertility specialist) - P. D. Hinduja Hospital". www.hindujahospital.com. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  6. ↑ Bharadwaj, Aditya (June 2016). "The Indian IVF saga: a contested history". Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online. 2: 54–61. doi:10.1016/j.rbms.2016.06.002. ISSN 2405-6618. PMC 5991886. PMID 29892717.
  7. ↑ "Padma Awards Announced" (Press release). Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2011.
  8. ↑ "Doctor who delivered India's first test tube baby to get national award". The Indian Express. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2026.

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  1. ↑ Admin (3 January 2022). "History Today in Medicine - Prof. Dr. Indira Hinduja". CME INDIA. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
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