{{Short description|Indian pharmacologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Om Datt Gulati | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1927|1|31}} | birth_place = India | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2012|2|23|1927|1|31}} | death_place = | residence = | fields = {{ublist | [[Pharmacology]] }} | workplaces = {{ublist | [[Baroda Medical College]] | Pramukhswami Medical College | Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises}} | alma_mater = {{ublist|[[University of Madras]] | [[Agra University]] | [[University of Colorado]] }} | doctoral_students = | known_for = Studies on Autonomic Pharmacology | awards = {{ublist|1971 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] |1973 [[National Academy of Medical Sciences|NAMS]] Shriram Gold Medal |1978 Amrut Modi Research Foundation Award |1981 [[B. C. Roy Award]]|IPS Uvunas Prize }} }} '''Om Datt Gulati''' (31 January 1927 – 23 February 2012<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |url=https://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=471 |access-date=2025-11-17 |website=ssbprize.gov.in}}</ref>) was an Indian [[Pharmacology|pharmacologist]] and the Dean of the Department of pharmacology at [[Baroda Medical College]].<ref name="Remembering Some Special">{{Cite web |url=http://www.heartacademy.org/phpwcms/index.php?remembering-some-special |title=Remembering Some Special |date=2012 |publisher=International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=30 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430115458/http://www.heartacademy.org/phpwcms/index.php?remembering-some-special |url-status=dead }}</ref> Known for his researches in [[Autonomic drug|autonomic pharmacology]],<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=471 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize}}</ref> he was also a professor at Pramukhswami Medical College, [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]] and an honorary fellow of the Indian Pharmaceutical Society.<ref name="Honours & Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://www.indianpharmacology.org/honors.html |title=Honours & Awards |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Pharmaceutical Society |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=30 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430115434/http://www.indianpharmacology.org/honors.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1971.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}} He received the [[B. C. Roy Award]], the highest Indian medical award, in 1981.<ref name="In memory of a Legend: Dr. Om Datt Gulati">{{Cite journal |last=Sagun V. Desai |title=In memory of a Legend: Dr. Om Datt Gulati |journal=Indian J. Pharmacol. |publication-date=2012 |volume=44 |issue=2 |page=282 |pmc=3326935|year=2012 }}</ref>
== Biography == [[File:Baroda Medical College.jpg|thumb|200px|Baroda Medical College]] Om Datt Gulati, born on 31 January 1927, graduated in medicine from the [[University of Madras]] and after earning an MD in pharmacology from [[Agra University]], moved to the [[University of Colorado Boulder]] from where he secured an MS.<ref name="In memory of a Legend: Dr. Om Datt Gulati" /> Returning to India, he joined [[Baroda Medical College]] where he spent whole of his regular career and held the post of a Dean at the time of his superannuation in 1985. Post-retirement, he joined Pramukhswami Medical College, in [[Anand, Gujarat]] as a professor before associating himself with Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprise, Baroda as a consultant and director.
Gulati was one of the founders of the Indian Pharmacological Society, served as its president and held its life membership.<ref name="History IPS">{{Cite web |url=http://www.indianpharmacology.org/history.html |title=History IPS |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Pharmacological Society |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=20 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220171837/http://www.indianpharmacology.org/history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He pioneered the academic studies on autonomic pharmacology in India<ref name="CV Network Memorials">{{Cite web |url=http://www.heartacademy.org/newsletter/11/2.pdf |title=CV Network Memorials |date=2017 |publisher=CV Network |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=13 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513082341/http://www.heartacademy.org/newsletter/11/2.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and mentored several master's and doctoral scholars of the subject.<ref name="Pharmacologist of India: Their Contribution">{{Cite book |url=http://www.vallabhprakashan.com/PcolI.aspx |title=Pharmacologist of India: Their Contribution |last=P. C. Pnadya, S. K. Kulkarni, G. D. Khilnani |isbn=978-93-85529-11-5 |date=2017 |page=354}}</ref> His [[endothelin]]-based researches during his days in the US elucidated the physiological role played by the peptides and widened the understanding of its effects on the sympathetic nervous system, central cardiovascular system and pathogenesis of hypertension.<ref name="CONTRIBUTION OF INDIAN SCIENTISTS TO PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE U.S.A. AND CANADA">{{Cite web |url=http://medind.nic.in/ibi/t00/i4/ibit00i4p152.pdf |title=CONTRIBUTION OF INDIAN SCIENTISTS TO PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE U.S.A. AND CANADA |date=2000 |publisher=Indian Journal of Pharmacology 2 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was also known to have done extensive studies on the [[Adrenergic receptor|adrenergic mechanisms]].<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=20 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He documented his researches by way of over 135 articles in per-reviewed journals<ref name="Gulati OD [Author] ">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?access_num=Gulati+OD&link_type=AUTHORSEARCH&cmd=search&term=Gulati+OD%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50 |title=Gulati OD [Author] |date=2017 |publisher=PubMed}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and his work has been cited by a number of authors and researchers. The award orations delivered by him include the B. N. Ghosh Oration of the Indian Pharmacological Society in 1982<ref name="Honours & Awards" /> and the Golden Jubilee Lecture of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]] in 2011<ref name="Clinical Research - Past, Present & Future">{{Cite journal |last=Om D. Gulati |title=Clinical Research - Past, Present & Future |url=http://nams-india.in/webpages/2013_1and%202/62-86-1-SM.pdf |journal=Ann Natl Acad Med Sci (India) |date=2013 |volume=49 |issue=1–2 |pages=16–30}}</ref>
Gulati died on 23 February 2012, at the age of 85.<ref name="Clinical Research - Past, Present & Future" />
== Awards and honors == The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded Gulati [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 1971.<ref name="Medical Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224074105/http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-24 |title=Medical Sciences |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research }}</ref> He received the Shriram Gold Medal of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 1973 and the Amrut Modi Research Foundation Award in 1978. The Medical Council of India awarded him the [[B. C. Roy Award]], the highest Indian honor inn the medical sciences category, in 1981. he is also a recipient of the Uvunas Prize of the Indian Pharmacological Society.<ref name="In memory of a Legend: Dr. Om Datt Gulati" /> Indian Pharmacological Society has instituted an annual oration, ''O. D. Gulati Oration''<ref name="Honours & Awards" /> and ''Indian Journal of Pharmacology'' awards ''O. D. Gulati Prize Paper Abstracts'' every year in his honor.<ref name="O. D. Gulati Prize Paper Abstracts">{{Cite web |url=https://doaj.org/article/97e49b6a59094367adf45789ac52497d |title=O. D. Gulati Prize Paper Abstracts |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Journal of Pharmacology |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220171936/https://doaj.org/article/97e49b6a59094367adf45789ac52497d |archive-date=20 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="O. D. Gulati Prize - List of Papers">{{cite journal |pmc=4755076 |title=O. D. Gulati Prize - List of Papers |journal=Indian Journal of Pharmacology |volume=47 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S7–S8 |date=2017}}</ref>
== Selected bibliography == * {{Cite journal |last=Nandkumar S. Shah, Om Datt Gulati |title=Effect of clozapine and molindone on plasma and brain levels of mescaline in mice |journal=European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics |publication-date=1984 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=307–309 |doi=10.1007/BF03189681|pmid=6532803 |year=1984 |s2cid=6615255 }} * {{Cite journal |vauthors=Rajani AP, Gulati OD|title=Evidence for multiple prejunctional receptor sites in rat isolated anococcygeus muscle |journal=Arch Int Pharmacodyn Ther. |publication-date=1988 |volume=292 |pages=86–100 |pmid=3395178|year=1988 }} * {{Cite journal |vauthors=Sethi OP, Anand KK, Gulati OD|title=Evaluation of xanthotoxol for central nervous system activity |journal=J. Ethnopharmacol. |publication-date=1992 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=239–47 |pmid=1434683|year=1992 |doi=10.1016/0378-8741(92)90050-2}} * {{Cite journal |vauthors=Bhugra P, Gulati OD|title=Interaction of calcium channel blockers with different agonists in aorta from normal and diseased rats |journal=Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. |publication-date=1996 |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=109–19 |pmid=9062804|year=1996 }} * {{Cite journal |vauthors=Bhugra P, Gulati OD|title=Influence of chronic treatment of rats with isoprenaline and calcium channel blockers on response of isolated right ventricle to noradrenaline |journal=Indian J Exp Biol |publication-date=2001 |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=272–5 |pmid=11495288|year=2001 }}
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== External links == * {{cite book|author=Popat N Patil|title=Discoveries in Pharmacological Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORW7CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|date=16 April 2012|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4458-66-5|pages=26–}} * {{Cite web |url=http://sprout038.sprout.yale.edu/imagefinder/Figure,$DirectLink.direct?state:Figure=BrO0ABXcRAAAAAQAACmRvY3VtZW50SWRzcgARamF2YS5sYW5nLkludGVnZXIS4qCk94GHOAIAAUkABXZhbHVleHIAEGphdmEubGFuZy5OdW1iZXKGrJUdC5TgiwIAAHhwABK26w%3D%3D |title=Dr. Om Datt Gulati (1927-2012) |date=2017 |publisher=Yale University |work=Yale Image Finder |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=20 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220174753/http://sprout038.sprout.yale.edu/imagefinder/Figure,$DirectLink.direct?state:Figure=BrO0ABXcRAAAAAQAACmRvY3VtZW50SWRzcgARamF2YS5sYW5nLkludGVnZXIS4qCk94GHOAIAAUkABXZhbHVleHIAEGphdmEubGFuZy5OdW1iZXKGrJUdC5TgiwIAAHhwABK26w%3D%3D |url-status=dead }}
== Further reading == * {{Cite web |url=http://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=print_theses |title=An Investigation of Some Aspects of the Central Nervous System Actions of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid and Related Compounds as Assessed by the Use of Systemic and Intracerebral Routes of Administration in Mice |last=Om Datt Gulati |year=1959 |publisher=University of Colorado, Boulder |work=Dissertation |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-date=20 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220172232/http://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=print_theses |url-status=dead }} * {{Cite web |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/obituaries/73898969/memory-legend-dr-om-datt-gulati |title=In memory of a Legend: Dr. Om Datt Gulati |last=Desai, Sagun V. |date=April 2012 |publisher=Indian Journal of Pharmacology |work=Obituary}}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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