Dr. Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar

Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar played a pioneer role in the development of IVF technology in India. He was inspired to work in the field of infertility medicine by Dr. Subhas Mukherjee - India’s pioneer IVF scientist- who had started an IVF program in Kolkata which led to the birth of a baby - “Durga” in 1978. After Dr. Subhas Mukherjee's death Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar & Dr. B N Chakraborty vowed to carry on Dr. Mukherjee’s work. Hence a privately initiated IVF program was started in Kolkata, where Dr. Dastidar developed the laboratory aspect of the program and Dr. Chakraborty developed the clinical aspect.Dr. Ghosh Dastidar has also been credited with one of the 1st Intra uterine insemination (IUI) pregnancies in the world during 1982-1984. This was reported at the 5th World Congress on Human Reproduction, Athens. At the conference in Helsinki (1984) Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar had the opportunity of meeting Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Edwards, a stalwart in the field of Reproductive medicine. Dr. Edwards was so impressed by Dr. Dastidar’s research that he invited Dr. Dastidar to his clinic at Bourne Hall, England.Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar has been selected as a member of the expert committee under Indian Council of Medical Research, which drafted the guideline for ART treatment in India. Another major achievement of Dr. Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar came in 2004, when Asia’s first surrogate IVF child was delivered to a single father (2005). This was the first report of such a pregnancy from the Asia. Dr. Ghosh Dastidar has delivered several lectures at world conferences such as ESHRE and ASRM. In 2007, Dr. Ghosh Dastidar was selected by ESHRE-European Society on Human Reproduction as India’s representative in the ESHRE special task force set up to develop low cost IVF in developing countries. The task force had its 1st meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, 2007. We have Best IVF Clinic Kolkata