# PGIMER doctor first Indian to win 2025 paediatric neurology award 2026-10-17T05:42:59+00:00 | Health & Science | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Dr Parth Lal, a DM trainee in paediatric neurology at PGIMER, Chandigarh, has become the first Indian recipient of the 2025 Paediatric Neurology Trainee Award. The award was presented on Friday, 16 October 2026, at the 2026 Child Neurology Society meeting in Montreal, Canada. Dr Lal received the recognition for his ‘NitRIS trial’, published in the journal Pediatric Neurology, which provides proof-of-concept evidence for the potential effectiveness of nitrazepam in children with infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS), a challenging form of epilepsy in infancy. The award selection considers the scientific significance, methodological rigour and innovation of the research. ThePrint adds that in December 2025, Dr Lal also received the Suzanne and Peter Berry International Travel Award from the American Epilepsy Society, being one of only two young investigators selected from 1,500 international submissions. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both indianewscalling.com and ThePrint carry the same core news through a PTI wire copy, making this uniform straight reporting. The Indian News Calling version adds institutional framing, quoting Dr Lal crediting PGIMER’s department and stating the award ‘underscores PGIMER’s continued commitment to nurturing emerging researchers’. ThePrint runs the identical PTI text but appends a separate note about a prior award Dr Lal won in December 2025, adding a detail absent from the other source. Neither outlet introduces any critical or political framing, the coverage is a neutral announcement of an academic honour. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - indianewscalling.com (neutral report) Straight PTI wire copy with added institutional praise for PGIMER - theprint.in (neutral report) Straight PTI wire copy with a prior-award detail appended This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Child Neurology Society, Dr Parth Lal, PGIMER Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/pgimer-doctor-first-indian-to-win-2025-paediatric-neurology-award/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/pgimer-doctor-first-indian-to-win-2025-paediatric-neurology-award/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/