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PGIMER doctor first Indian to win 2025 paediatric neurology award
PGIMER doctor first Indian to win 2025 paediatric neurology award
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: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): indianewscalling.com (neutral report), theprint.in (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
