Background
Navalkar, Ramchandra Govindrao was born on May 7, 1924 in Bombay. Son of Govindrao Narayan and Shantabai Navalkar.
Navalkar, Ramchandra Govindrao was born on May 7, 1924 in Bombay. Son of Govindrao Narayan and Shantabai Navalkar.
Bachelor of Science, Bombay University, 1946. Society for Technical Communication, Bombay University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Bombay University, 1956.
Research assistant, Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Bombay, 1952-1956;
field and research officer, Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Bombay, 1959-1960;
biologist, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, 1956-1958;
visiting fellow school public health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958;
postdoctoral fellow department medical microbiology, Stanford (California) U., 1956-1958;
project associate department medical microbiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1960-1963, 66-67;
research engineer associate, Institute Medical Microbiology, U. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1964-1965;
assistant professor microbiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, 1967-1972;
associate professor microbiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, 1972-1976;
professor microbiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, 1976-1980;
professor, department chairman microbiology and immunology, Morehouse School Medicine, Atlanta, since 1980. Member site visit committee National Institutes of Health for tuberculosis research programs, India, 1975. Principal co-ordinary Immunology of Leprosy Project, Al-Azhar U., Cairo, 1977.
Member ad hoc review committee National Institutes of Health, 1978, 1979, International Leprosy Association Workshop on Microbiology, Mexico City, 1978. Member project site visit committee National Institutes of Health, Atlanta, 1978, Executive Committee Science Research Institute, Atlanta University Center. Consultant Machine-Readable Cataloging program Tennessee State University, Nashville, 1981.
Distinguished guestand consultant to Institute Dermatology, People's Republic of China, 1982. Chairman, member National Institutes of Health special study section on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related infectins, 1990, on tuberculosis present in lung, 1993. Member Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and related-research study section, DRG, National Institutes of Health, since 1995.
Fellow American Academy Microbiology. Member American Society Microbiology, The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, International Leprosy Association, Indian Association of Leprologists, Acworth Leprosy Hospital Society for Research and Rehabilitation (life member), Association Medical School Microbiology Chairmen.
Married Shubhangi Navalkar, December 27, 1966. Children: Sushant, Sudevi.