The award is named in honour of the British physician who first described acute kidney failure in patients with crush syndrome during the 1941 London blitz. Dr Chugh has received this award in recognition of outstanding and sustained excellence of research in the field of acute kidney injury carried out over three decades.

The National Kidney Foundation of the US has considered Dr Chugh's contributions to the renal community in India as "most outstanding" and the International Society of Nephrology has included him amongst the first 50 legends in nephrology world over whose lifetime works have been recorded for the Video Legacy Project of the ISN. The award was presented to Dr Chugh during the World Congress of Nephrology held at Cape Town, South Africa, by Prof Giuseppe Remuzzi, president, International Society of Nephrology.

Dr Chugh is a world renowned nephrologist and is known as the father of nephrology in the country. He has made pioneering contribution to the development of nephrology in India and South-east Asia. He set up the first department of nephrology at PGI, Chandigarh, in 1963 and established the first nephrology training programme in 1969. He has trained and mentored several generations of nephrologists. He founded the Indian Society of Nephrology in 1970. Dr Chugh has made several original contributions in the field of tropical nephrology which have received national and international attention. The major area of research has focused on etiopathogenesis of acute kidney injury associated with diarrhoeal diseases, including HUS, malaria, obstetric accidents, snake bite and insect stings, G-6 P-D deficiency copper intoxication and rhabdomylosis.

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