Hunterian Professorship & Medal of Honour

Hunterian Professorship and the Medal of Honour for 2017 to Prof. (Dr.) A. Ananthram Shetty, Adjunct Professor Prof. (Dr.) A. Ananthram Shetty, Chair of Orthopaedics and Director of Research, Institute of Medical Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, United Kingdom (UK), and Adjunct Professor, Nitte University Centre for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine (NUCSReM), KSHEMA has been conferred with the prestigious Hunterian Professorship and the Medal of Honour for 2017 by United Kingdom’s Royal College of Surgeons for his research on stem cells towards articular cartilage repair. The Hunterian Professorship award is named after ace surgeon and scientist John Hunter, and is one of the most highly-regarded annual awards in the field of surgery.