Advisors

                 Chief Advisor

                             (Dr David R. Nalin)

David R. Nalin, MD. Is the former Director of Vaccine Scientific Affairs. Merck Vaccine Division, Merck&Co. Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Dr. David R. Nalin, was assigned, in the 1960s, to the East Pakistan (Currently Bangladesh) -SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (CRL) in Dhaka, as a research associate at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

He led the trials that first demonstrated ORT works in cholera and, crucially, in other dehydrating diarrheal diseases. Nalin's discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 50 million lives worldwide.

Among his distinctions, in November 2002 Nalin received the first Pollin Prize in Pediatric Research. In January 2007 he received the Mahidol Medal from the King of Thailand for the discovery and implementation of ORT.

Quotes about the Science and Scientist, David Nalin

“No other single medical breakthrough of the 20th century has had the potential to prevent so many deaths over such a short period of time and at so little cost.” – UNICEF 1987.

Advisor : Gyanendra Raj Adhikary

Advisor: Arjun Bhandari