New Delhi [India], November 18 (ANI/SRV): Dr Lekha Pandit, Professor of Neurology & Director, Center for Advanced Neurological Science at KS Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte (Deemed to be University) has been awarded the prestigious fellowship of the National Academy of Science India (NASI), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. Since its inception in 1930, NASI has selected nearly 2000 Fellows from various fields of science for their path-breaking research in Science & Technology and for furthering societal education in science. Dr. Lekha Pandit is a clinician and basic science researcher whose three-decade-long work on demyelinating disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica, has remarkably improved the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of these severe diseases in India. Further, she has through her pioneering work shown the increasing prevalence of these diseases among Indians, determined the genetic and environmental factors relate