{"id":30637,"date":"2018-10-26T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30637"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:44:18","slug":"icmr-wins-the-2017-kochon-prize-for-tb-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icmr-wins-the-2017-kochon-prize-for-tb-research\/","title":{"rendered":"ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/icmr-wins-the-2017-kochon-prize-for-tb-research\/article23228652.ece\"><strong>ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2017 Kochon Prize was awarded to the Indian Council of\u00a0Medical Research (ICMR) in New Delhi for building a tradition of excellence in <strong>TB research and development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kochon Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to individuals and\/or organizations that have made a significant contribution to combating TB. The ICMR emerged the winner from amongst 18 nominations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prize sends a strong message that investing in research is critically important to end TB epidemic. The recognition comes at a crucial time when the Indian government is increasing its commitment to end TB<\/li>\n<li>The award will improve the profile of ICMR, bring more awareness and funding for research and attract more people to take up research on TB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is TRC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 1956, Chennai\u2019s National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) [which was formerly known as the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre and later as Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC)] has undertaken several trials that had had impact internationally<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BCG trial<\/strong>: The BCG vaccine trial by TRC, the largest ever to be conducted, followed-up 350,000 volunteers for 15 years<\/li>\n<li>TRC has also conducted more than 50 <strong>drug combination and duration trails <\/strong>for both pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB, and undertaken pharmacokinetic studies for dosing. It has developed new diagnostics, and tested and validated diagnostics developed elsewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research Context The 2017 Kochon Prize was awarded to the Indian Council of\u00a0Medical Research (ICMR) in New Delhi for building a tradition of excellence in TB research and development Kochon Prize The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to individuals and\/or organizations that have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icmr-wins-the-2017-kochon-prize-for-tb-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704847183},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}