2 medicos from Jammu and Kashmir feature in Stanford's top scientists of World list

Veteran gastroenterologist and ex-director SKIMS, Dr MS Khuroo, and the current head of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine SKIMS, Dr Parvaiz A Koul, have figured in the “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, reports Greater Kashmir.

The database, a work of John Ioannidis, Kevin Boyack and Jeroene Bass from the departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health and Biomedical Data Science, University of Stanford, California, USA has been published in the October 16 issue of PLos Biology, the newspaper reported.

Koul told the newspaper: "The day one of my students outpaces me in every single sphere, I will be a satisfied man."

While giving advice to the budding researchers, he said, “Collaboration is the key to success and given the overall health of the funding bodies and a constant crunch on research funding, it is imperative that researchers collaborate with sister institutions and foreign universities to procure top notch equipment and adequate research wherewithal for their projects."

Khuroo expressed concern over only two scientists from the Valley only featuring in the ivy list.

“We have more than six research institutions here in J&K. We need to be doing more research and more relevant research,” he told the newspaper.