Indira Hinduja

Indira Hinduja (born 21 August 1946) is an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and infertility specialist based in Mumbai. She pioneered the Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) technique resulting in the birth of India's first GIFT baby on 4 January 1988. Previously she delivered India's second test tube baby at KEM Hospital on 6 August 1986. She is also credited for developing an oocyte donation technique for menopausal and premature ovarian failure patients, giving the country's first baby out of this technique on 24 January 1991.

Academic career Hinduja graduated from Topiwala National Medical College and B. Y. L. Nair Hospital, Bombay, in 1967. She subsequently obtained a Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1969), a Diploma in Family Planning (1970), and an MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1972) from the University of Bombay. In 1988, she received a PhD in Applied Biology from the University of Bombay for her thesis titled ‘‘Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer ’’.

Hinduja has served as an honorary obstetrician and gynecologist at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre Mumbai.

She was associated with Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, where she collaborated with the Institute for Research in Reproductive Health ( now the ICMR–National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health) on research in assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and embryo transfer.

Awards Young Indian Award (1987) Outstanding Lady Citizen of Maharashtra State Jaycee Award (1987) Bharat Nirman Award for Talented Ladies (1994) International Women's Day Award by the Mayor of Bombay (1995; 2000) Lifetime Achievement Award by the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society of India (1999) Dhanvantari Award by the Governor of Maharashtra (2000) Padma Shri award from the Government of India (2011) 2019: National Research Award by the Government of India for contributions to assisted reproductive technology.