Chakaraka Chakarakachak chak chak....Makaraka Makaraka mak mak mak....who are we ?....GMCites!!who are we ?....GMCites!!This group is for all GMCites as those who studied / worked at Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India are known as.Grant Medical College is THE FIRST medical college started in Mumbai and is THE OLDEST.Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Gr.of Hospitals is a premier and prestigious Institution. It is amongst the ten best medical colleges in the country. (India Today survey 2007).All GMCites around the world are invited to join this group to know /interact with each other.The aim also is to introduce this great college, its great history to the medical fraternity world over. Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine did his Bubonic plague research in Framji Dinshaw Petit research laboratory, b. 1891 in Grant Medical college. He succeeded in preparing a vaccine which saved countless lives.Robert Koch's work on Vibrio cholerae was done in two rooms of the old animal house of then Grant Medical college. Van Duke Carter discovered in pathology department the Spirochaetes of Relapsing Fever in Blood smears in 1907. It was here that Christopher and Caval worked on Malaria and Dr. Raghavendra Rao worked in on Tropical Diseases, Leprosy, Plague & Leishmaniasis. Please read the history of this college below.