2009 Winner: Ravi Desai

2009 winner: Ravi Desai.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2009 JCS Prize is Ravi Desai, for his paper entitled ‘Cell polarity triggered by cell-cell contact via E-cadherin’ (Desai et al., 2009). The $1000 prize is awarded annually to the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best published in the Journal that year. To be considered for the prize, the firs...

Dr. Madhusudan Mohanlal Desai.

D M. M. Desai was born in Surat, Gujarat, on 10th June 1919. His father, Shri Mohanlal Desai was an eminent lawyer and a corporator of Bombay (Mumbai) Municipal Corporation for many years; his mother Viravati was a homemaker. Dr. Desai studied at Elphinstone school and Elphinstone College, Mumbai, before joining Seth G. S. Medical College, Mumbai. The decision to study medicine was made by his ...

The Transportation Primitive Ravi

World Medical Association's tainted president, Ketan Desai.

Schistosomiasis By Ravi Chavali

Etiologic Agent Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic worm of genus Schistosoma [1]. It belongs to phylum Platyhelminthes, class Trematoda and genus Schistosoma [2]. Most human infections are caused by the three species: S. mansoni, S. haematobium, and S. japonicum [3]. There are two more species S. intercalatum and S. mekongi known to cause Schistosomiasis [3]. The most infections c...