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{{Short description|Indian oncologist and pathologist}}
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| othername = Madhav Gajanan Deo
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'''Madhav Gajanan Deo''' (born 6 April 1932) is an Indian oncologist, pathologist and educationist, known for his contributions to the field of [[Molecular medicine]].<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N74-0202 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812231553/http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=N74-0202 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=12 August 2016 | title=INSA Indian Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> He is the founder president of the ''Indian Association of Cancer Research'' and one of the founders of the ''Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine''.<ref name="ICRD profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.incredb.org/investigator.php?incredb_id=144 | title=ICRD profile | publisher=Indian Cancer Research Database | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015 | archive-date=11 May 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511193713/http://incredb.org/investigator.php?incredb_id=144 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a recipient of the [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]].<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1990.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Madhav Deo was born on 6 April 1932<ref name="IAS Fellowship">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/php/fell_detail.php3?name=Deo&intials=Madhav&year=06-04-1932 | title=IAS Fellowship | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> and graduated in medicine from [[Gajara Raja Medical College|Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior]] under [[Agra University]] in 1955.<ref name="Leading Lights of IDD">{{cite web | url=http://iqplusin.org/index.php/about-us/leading-lights-of-idd | title=Leading Lights of IDD | publisher=ICCIDD Global Network | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015 | archive-date=29 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329155031/http://iqplusin.org/index.php/about-us/leading-lights-of-idd | url-status=dead }}</ref> His master's degree (MD) came from [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi]] for his research under [[Vulimiri Ramalingaswami]] which he completed in his first attempt in May 1960<ref name="AIIMS MD students">{{cite web | url=http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/pathology_old_3_11_11/Pathoalumini.htm | title=AIIMS MD students | publisher=All India Institute of Medical Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> after which he secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in July 1964 from the same institution.<ref name="AIIMS PhD Students">{{cite web | url=http://www.aiims.edu/aiims/departments/pathology_old_3_11_11/Pathoalumini1.htm | title=AIIMS PhD Students | publisher=All India Institute of Medical Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> Joining AIIMS, he became a professor of pathology in 1974 and held the post till 1978, when he was appointed as the director of ''Cancer Research Institute'', (present day Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer - ACTREC, a satellite institution of the [[Tata Memorial Centre]]).<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /> He stayed at the centre till 1975, and after a short stint at [[Jaslok Hospital]] as the director of Research and Chief of Laboratories (1997–1998), he shifted his base to Mauritius as the director of ''SSR Centre for Medical Studies and Research'', [[University of Mauritius]] where he worked for two years, till his retirement in 2000.<ref name="Leading Lights of IDD" /> He also served as a ''[[John E. Fogarty|Fogarty]] Scholar in Residence'' at [[John E. Fogarty International Center]] of the [[National Institute of Health|National Institute of Health, Bethesda]], USA and as a visiting professor at the [[University of Paris VII]].<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" />

==Legacy==
[[File:Kone med stor struma.jpg|right|140 px|thumb|[[Goitre]] (Struma Class III)]]
During his masters and doctoral research at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences]], along with [[V. Ramalingaswami]], Deo was able to develop a non-human primate model of human protein energy malnutrition.<ref name="Bone growth in protein deficiency. A study in rhesus monkeys">{{cite journal | title=Bone growth in protein deficiency. A study in rhesus monkeys |author1=G. J. Jha |author2=M. G. Deo |author3=V. Ramalingaswami |name-list-style=amp | journal=Am J Pathol |date=December 1968 | volume=53 | issue=6 | pages=1111–1123 | pmc=2013535 | pmid=4972502}}</ref><ref name="Experimental Protein Deficiency">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwYHsbAyjfMC&q=non-human+primate+model+of+human+protein+energy+malnutrition+MG+Deo&pg=PA56 | title=Experimental Protein Deficiency |vauthors=Deo MG, Sood SK, Ramalingaswami V | journal=Arch. Pathol. | year=1965 | volume=80 | pages=14–23| isbn=9780323153171 }}</ref> Together, they propounded the necessity of iodization of common salt,<ref name="The Aetiology of Himalayan Endemic Goitre">{{cite journal | url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(61)90118-0/abstract | title=The Aetiology of Himalayan Endemic Goitre |author1=V. Ramalingaswami |author2=T. A. V. Subramanian |author3=M. G. Deo |author4=M. B. Agra | journal=The Lancet |date=April 1961 | volume=277 | issue=7181 | pages=791–794 | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(61)90118-0 | pmid=13739307| url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="Prevention of endemic goitre with iodized salt">{{cite journal | title=Prevention of endemic goitre with iodized salt |vauthors=Sooch SS, Deo MG, Karmarkar MG, Kochupillai N, Ramachandran K, Ramalingaswami V | journal=Bull World Health Organ | year=1973 | volume=49 | issue=3 | pages=307–312 | pmid=4546523 | pmc=2481146}}</ref> which formed the base for the ''National Goitre Control Programme'' in India.<ref name="Endemic Goitre: Why the Apathy? Review of National Goitre Control Programme">{{cite journal | jstor=4375830| title=Endemic Goitre: Why the Apathy? Review of National Goitre Control Programme |author1=C. S. Pandav |author2=N. Kochupillai |author3=M. G. Karmarkar |author4=L. M. Nath | journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=June 1986 | volume=21 | issue=25/26 | pages=1121–1128}}</ref> He is credited with the development of an anti-leprosy vaccine from killed ICRC [[bacillus]] which was accomplished during his stint at the Cancer Research Institute.<ref name="ICRC 'anti-leprosy vaccine'">{{cite journal | title=ICRC 'anti-leprosy vaccine' | author=M. G. Deo | journal=Vaccine |date=April 1989 | volume=7 | issue=2 | pages=92–93 | doi=10.1016/0264-410x(89)90041-8 | pmid=2665352}}</ref><ref name="Potential anti-leprosy vaccine from killed ICRC bacilli--a clinicopathological study">{{cite journal | title=Potential anti-leprosy vaccine from killed ICRC bacilli--a clinicopathological study |vauthors=Deo MG, Bapat CV, Chullawalla RG, Bhatki WS | journal=Indian J Med Res |date=August 1981 | volume=74 | pages=164–177 | pmid=7030942}}</ref> Continuing his research at the institute, Deo and his colleagues, discovered an ''Enhancing Factor'' (EF), a 14 kDa protein, isolated from the small intestine of mice.<ref name="Expression of enhancing factor gene and its localization in mouse tissues.">{{cite journal | title=Expression of enhancing factor gene and its localization in mouse tissues. | author=Mulherkar R1, Desai SJ, Rao RS, Wagle AS, Deo MG. | journal=Histochemistry | year=1991 | volume=96 | issue=4 | pages=367–370 | pmid=1787109 | doi=10.1007/bf00271358| s2cid=38630308 }}</ref> This gene is presently in use for producing [[Genetically modified mouse|transgenic mice]].<ref name="Paneth cell differentiation in the developing intestine of normal and transgenic mice">{{cite journal | title=Paneth cell differentiation in the developing intestine of normal and transgenic mice | journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. | volume=91 | issue=22 | pages=10335–10339 | date=1994 | doi=10.1073/pnas.91.22.10335| pmid=7937951 | last1=Bry | first1=L. | last2=Falk | first2=P. | last3=Huttner | first3=K. | last4=Ouellette | first4=A. | last5=Midtvedt | first5=T. | last6=Gordon | first6=J. I. | pmc=45014 | bibcode=1994PNAS...9110335B | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Enhancing factor protein from mouse small intestines belongs to the phospholipase A2 family.">{{cite journal | title=Enhancing factor protein from mouse small intestines belongs to the phospholipase A2 family. |vauthors=Mulherkar R, Rao R, Rao L, Patki V, Chauhan VS, Deo MG | journal=FEBS Lett. |date=February 1993 | volume=317 | issue=3 | pages=263–66 | pmid=8425615 | doi=10.1016/0014-5793(93)81289-c|s2cid=9947061 | doi-access=free }}</ref> His researches have been documented by way of several articles, published in peer-reviewed journals<ref name="Directory of Emeritus Professors">{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/docs_pdfs/directory%20of%20emer.pdf | title=Directory of Emeritus Professors | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> and papers presented at national and international conferences.<ref name="Articles">{{cite web | url=http://movingacademy.org/Publication.htm | title=Articles | publisher=Moving Academy | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065445/http://movingacademy.org/Publication.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1980, Deo and a few other oncological researchers and medical practitioners, got together for the promotion of cancer research and interaction among scientific community and to disseminate knowledge about the disease among the common man and that resulted in the formation of the ''Indian Association of Cancer Research''<ref name="Activities of IACR">{{cite web | url=http://www.iacr.org.in/activities.htm | title=Activities of IACR | publisher=Indian Association of Cancer Research | date=2015 | access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> with Deo as its founder president.<ref name="Founding Members">{{cite web | url=http://www.iacr.org.in/ | title=Founding Members | publisher=Indian Association of Cancer Research | date=2015 | access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> He was among the twelve medical researchers who assisted [[N. H. Wadia|Noshir Hormusjee Wadia]] in founding the ''Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine'', in 2001, to spread the knowledge about the modern trends in medical and bio-medical research,<ref name="Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine Home">{{cite web | url=http://www.movingacademy.org/governing-body.htm | title=Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine Home | publisher=Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine | date=2015 | access-date=4 September 2015 | archive-date=9 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809065257/http://www.movingacademy.org/governing-body.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> of which he is the incumbent vice president.<ref name="Governing Council Members">{{cite web | url=http://www.movingacademy.org/governing-body.htm | title=Governing Council Members | publisher=Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine | date=2015 | access-date=4 September 2015 | archive-date=9 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809065257/http://www.movingacademy.org/governing-body.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> The organization plays a role in conducting periodical workshops at institutions, thereby providing easy access for the medical student community to modern medical information;<ref name="Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine Home" /> the ''First National Medical Students' Research Conference'' was conducted in 2006 at [[Pune]], which was open to medical graduate students.<ref name="Our history">{{cite web | url=http://www.informer.org.in/about-us/history | title=Our history | publisher=Indian Forum For Medical Students' Research (INFORMER) | date=2015 | access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> The next one, the ''First Asian and Second National Medical Students' Research Conference'' was staged two years.after which, the students, under Deo's leadership, formed an association, the ''Indian Forum For Medical Students' Research (INFORMER)''.<ref name="Our history" /> The forum promotes research based education and assists members to secure funds for education and research.<ref name="Our history" /> He serves as the member of the editorial board of ''The Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University''<ref name="Editorial Board-The Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University">{{cite web | url=http://www.jkimsu.com/editorial-board.html | title=Editorial Board-The Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University | publisher=The Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University | date=2015 | access-date=4 September 2015}}</ref> and has served as an advisor to many national and international medical organizations<ref name="Leading Lights of IDD" /> such as ''Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences'', where he serves as a member of their expert panel.<ref name="Planning & Monitoring Board - PIMS">{{cite web | url=http://www.pravara.com/planning-board.html | title=Planning & Monitoring Board - PIMS | publisher=Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences | date=2015 | access-date=3 September 2015}}</ref> He also worked as an honorary visiting professor at the ''School of Health Sciences'' of the [[University of Pune]]<ref name="NASI Fellowship">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=D |title=NASI Fellowship |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |date=2015 |access-date=3 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717020647/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=D |archive-date=17 July 2015 }}</ref> and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National AIDS Research Institute.<ref name="Directory of Emeritus Professors" />

==Awards and honours==
M. G. Deo is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1974), served its council as a member from 1977 to 1980 and was its secretary from 1978 to 1982.<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /> Two years later, the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as their fellow in 1976.,<ref name="IAS Fellowship" /> The [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], another elite Indian science academy, elected him as a fellow in 1991.<ref name="NASI Fellowship" /> He has also been a [[Rockefeller Foundation]] fellow<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /> and is a fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] which has honoured him by selecting him as its lifetime ''Emeritus Professor''.<ref name="Directory of Emeritus Professors" />

Deo has delivered several notable award lectures such as the Bires Chandra Guha Lecture of [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1978), Basanti Devi Amir Chand Oration of [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] (1980), Silver Jubilee Oration of the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi]], Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award of [[Indian Science Congress Association]] (1988) and [[Vikram Sarabhai]] Oration.<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /><ref name="Directory of Emeritus Professors" /> He received the Amrut Mody Research Foundation Award in 1972<ref name="Leading Lights of IDD" /> and the [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] in 1988.<ref name="Medicine">{{cite web | url=http://www.opbfawards.com/health.html | title=Medicine | publisher=Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation | date=2015 | access-date=5 September 2015}}</ref> The next year, the [[Medical Council of India]] awarded him the Silver Jubilee Research Award (1989).<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /> The [[Government of India]] included him in the 1990 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honours]] for the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards" /> Two years later, he received the Rameshwar Das Birla National Award (1992) and Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Visiting Fellowship Award of [[Indian National Science Academy]] reached him 1993.<ref name="INSA Indian Fellow" /> He is also a recipient of the Hari Om Alembic Research Fund Award<ref name="Directory of Emeritus Professors" /> and the Association of Pathologist of Indian of North America, USA selected him for the Life Time Achievement Award in 2008.<ref name="Leading Lights of IDD" />

==Selected bibliography==
* {{cite journal | title=Enhancing factor protein from mouse small intestines belongs to the phospholipase A2 family. |vauthors=Mulherkar R, Rao R, Rao L, Patki V, Chauhan VS, Deo MG | journal=FEBS Lett. |date=February 1993 | volume=317 | issue=3 | pages=263–66 | pmid=8425615 | doi=10.1016/0014-5793(93)81289-c|s2cid=9947061 | doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Bone growth in protein deficiency. A study in rhesus monkeys |author1=G. J. Jha |author2=M. G. Deo |author3=V. Ramalingaswami |name-list-style=amp | journal=Am J Pathol |date=December 1968 | volume=53 | issue=6 | pages=1111–1123|pmid=4972502 |pmc=2013535 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Experimental Protein Deficiency |vauthors=Deo MG, Sood SK, Ramalingaswami V | journal=Arch. Pathol. | year=1965 | volume=80 | pages=14–23}}
* {{cite journal | title=The Aetiology of Himalayan Endemic Goitre |author1=V. Ramalingaswami |author2=T. A. V. Subramanian |author3=M. G. Deo |author4=M. B. Agra | journal=The Lancet |date=April 1961 | volume=277 | issue=7181 | pages=791–794 | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(61)90118-0 | pmid=13739307}}
* {{cite journal | title=Prevention of endemic goitre with iodized salt |vauthors=Sooch SS, Deo MG, Karmarkar MG, Kochupillai N, Ramachandran K, Ramalingaswami V | journal=Bull World Health Organ | year=1973 | volume=49 | issue=3 | pages=307–312 | pmid=4546523 | pmc=2481146}}
* {{cite journal | title=ICRC 'anti-leprosy vaccine' | author=M. G. Deo | journal=Vaccine |date=April 1989 | volume=7 | issue=2 | pages=92–93 | doi=10.1016/0264-410x(89)90041-8 | pmid=2665352}}
* {{cite journal | title=Potential anti-leprosy vaccine from killed ICRC bacilli--a clinicopathological study |vauthors=Deo MG, Bapat CV, Chullawalla RG, Bhatki WS | journal=Indian J Med Res |date=August 1981 | volume=74 | pages=164–177 | pmid=7030942}}
* {{cite journal | title=Expression of enhancing factor gene and its localization in mouse tissues. | author=Mulherkar R1, Desai SJ, Rao RS, Wagle AS, Deo MG. | journal=Histochemistry | year=1991 | volume=96 | issue=4 | pages=367–370 | pmid=1787109 | doi=10.1007/bf00271358| s2cid=38630308 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Enhancing factor protein from mouse small intestines belongs to the phospholipase A2 family. |vauthors=Mulherkar R, Rao R, Rao L, Patki V, Chauhan VS, Deo MG | journal=FEBS Lett. |date=February 1993 | volume=317 | issue=3 | pages=263–66 | pmid=8425615 | doi=10.1016/0014-5793(93)81289-c|s2cid=9947061 | doi-access=free }}

==See also==
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* [[Vulimiri Ramalingaswami]]
* [[Genetically modified mouse]]
* [[N. H. Wadia]]
* [[Molecular medicine]]
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