Speaker

Kedar N Prasad

Biography :

Dr Prasad graduated from the University of Iowa, Post-doctoral training at the Brookhaven National laboratory, and joined the University of Colorado Medical School for teaching and research. Discoveries: An elevation of cyclic AMP induced terminal differentiation in neuroblastoma cells in culture. Butyric acid and vitamin E succinate are potent anti-cancer agent. High dose antioxidants kill cancer cells without affecting normal cells. Honors: In 1982, he was invited by the Nobel Prize Committee to nominate a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In 2017, he was invited to become a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, London