Honors and Awards:

• T Ahmed Medal in Ophthalmology, University of Calcutta, 1957
• Fulbright Scholar (to travel to USA), University of Calcutta, 1962-1963
• University of Melbourne Scholar (as visiting Professor, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne), 1977-1978
• JCB Grant Senior Scientist Award, Canadian Association of Anatomists, 1990
• Certificate of Merit, National Cancer Institute of Canada, 1990
• Award of Excellence in Research, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Western Ontario, 1996
• International Symposium in Tribute to P.K. Lala, Queen’s University (co-sponsored by CIHR), 2001

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Editorial Boards:

Member, Editorial Boards

• Experimental Haematology, 1974-1977
• Leukaemia Research, 1977-1986
• American Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 1983-1993
• Early Pregnancy: Biology and Medicine, 1995-current
• Placenta, 1996-2001
• Biology of Reproduction, 2001-2004

Associate Editor

• American Journal of Anatomy, 1987-1990

Guest Editor

• Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 1997

Co-editor

• "Stem Cells of Renewing Cell Populations", Academic Press,1976
• American Journal of Anatomy, special issue on "Immune System", 1984

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Membership in Grants Committees of National and International Agencies:

• Consultant NIH study section on "Experimental Therapeutics", 1976-1979
• Member, NIH Committee on "Immune Mechanisms in Fertility & Infertility", 1986
• Member, NIH Committee on "The Mechanisms of Embryonic/Fetal-Maternal Tolerance", 1995
• Member, NIH Committee on “Cooperative Program on Trophoblast-maternal Tissue Interactions, 2001
• Member of Pathology & Morphology Committee, MRC Canada, 1985-1988, 1993-1996
• Member of Immunology panel, NCI Canada, 1987-1990
• Member: Medical Oncology Panel, and the Medical Research Advisory Board, Cancer Research Society Inc., 1987-1990
• Member, Connaught Committee, 1990-1992
• Member, CBCF Breast Cancer Panel, 2005-2007
• Ad Hoc Member, CIHR Panels, 2003-2006

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External Reviewer for Research Granting Agencies:

MRC (Canada); NSERC (Canada); FRSQ (Quebec); NIH (U.S.A.); NCI (Canada); Cancer Research Society (Montreal); Manitoba Health Research Council; BC Health Research Foundation; Physicians Services Inc. (Ontario); Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research; March of Dimes Foundation; Leukaemia Society of America; Lalor Foundation, USA; US-Israel Scientific Exchange Program; U.S Army Medical Research; Swiss National Science Foundation; AIRC, Italy; British Empire Cancer Research Campaign; Welcome Foundation UK; Sheffield Hospital Charitable Trust; Cancer Research, UK;  Austrian Science Funds and others; Site Visitor for the NIH (USA) program review teams.

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Organization of Scientific Meetings:

• Co-organizer of the International Symposium (a tribute to C.P. Leblond) on "Stem Cells in Various Tissues", Montreal, Quebec, 1975.
• Organizer and chair of workshops, International Conference on Reproductive Immunology, Banff, Alberta, 1981. 
• Organizer and chair of many workshops and symposia for the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies meetings, 1981-1992. 
• Organizer and chair, Lymphoid Tissue Sessions of Meetings of the American Association of Anatomists for many years, 1972-1987. 
• Co-organizer, International Congress of Reproductive Immunology, Toronto, Ontario, 1986. 
• Vice-president, X International Symposium on Morphology; Chair and lecturer in the Symposium on "Uteroplacental Homeostasis, Toronto, 1991.
• Chair and Symposium Speaker, "Pregnancy Related Immune Mechanisms", XII Annual Meeting of the American Society of Immunology Reproduction, Charleston, SC, 1992.
• Organizer and chair of workshop, Sixth Intl. Congress of Reproductive Immunology, Washington, D.C., 1995.
• Organizer and chair of many symposia and workshops at the meetings of the Rochester Trophoblast Conference and the European Placenta Group (RTC/EPG) and later the International Federation of Placental Association (IFPA) meetings for many years, 1992-2002. He served on the organizing committee and as the chair of the abstract review committee , EFPA 2007 meeting held in Kingston, Ontario.

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Invited Lectureships in Symposia and Distinguished Lectureships:

• Too many to be listed.

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