- Padmanabhan Balaram
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Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and the director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.
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Education
Balaram received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, Pune followed by a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University with A. A. Bothner-By. After a postdoctoral stint at Harvard University with Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward, he returned to the Indian Institute of Science, where he has been ever since as a faculty member in the Molecular Biophysics Unit. During his PhD, Balaram studied the use of negative Nuclear Overhauser effect signals as probes of macromolecular conformations. As a postdoc with Woodward, Balaram worked on the synthesis of the antibiotic erythromycin.
Research
Balaram's main area of research has been the investigation of the structure, conformation, and biological activity of designed and natural peptides. To do this, he has extensively used techniques such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, and Circular Dichroism, along with X-ray crystallography. He has been a major contributor to the evaluation of factors influencing the folding and conformations of designed peptides, and has investigated structural elements playing a key role in the formation of secondary structural motifs such as helices, beta turns, and sheets. Along with Isabella Karle, a frequent collaborator, he has also pioneered the use of alpha-amino isobutyric acid to induce and retain helicity and constrain peptide conformations.
Balaram has authored more than 400 research papers, and is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
He was also a colleague of late Prof G.N Ramachandran at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of IISc. He is presently the director of the Indian Institute of Science and is also the editor of the journal 'Current Science'.
Awards won
- Padma Shri
- Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar medal
See also
External links
- Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram takes charge as new director of IISc
- Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram takes charge as new director of IISc
- IIT Kanpur Alumni Page
Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science T.R. Govindachari (1960) • Asima Chatterjee (1961) • S.C. Bhattacharyya (1962) • B.D. Tilak (1963) • Sukh Dev (1964) • Sadhan Basu & R.C. Mehrotra (1965) • N.A. Ramaiah (1966) • Santappa (1967) • C.N.R. Rao (1968) • A.C. Jain (1969) • P.T. Narasimhan (1970) • M.M. Dhar (1971) • S.V. Kessar & A.P.B. Sinha (1972) • M.V. George & H.B. Mathur(1973) • U. R. Ghatak & K. Nagarajan(1974) • D. S. Bhakuni & Animesh Chakravorty(1975) • Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976) • Mihir Chowdhury & S. Ranganathan(1977) • Girjesh Govil & Goverdhan Mehta (1978) • D. Balasubramanian & B. M. Deb (1981) • C. L. Khetrapal & G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982) • Samaresh Mitra & Naba Kishore Ray (1983) • Paramasivan Natarajan & K. J. Rao (1984) • P.Balaram (1986) • Debashis Mukherjee (1987) • Kaushal Kishore (1988) • Srinivasan Chandrasekaran & M. K. Chaudhuri (1989) • B. M. Choudary & N. Sathyamurthy (1990) • Biman Bagchi & J. S. Yadav (1991) • Sumit Bhaduri & Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992) • S. R. Gadre & T. Ramasami (1993) • E. D. Jemmis & D. D. Sarma (1994) • Jayaraman Chandrasekhar & K. L. Sebastian (1995) • Narayanan Chandrakumar & Mariappan Periasamy (1996) • Kankan Bhattacharyya & Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997) • A.R. Chakravarty & K. N. Ganesh (1998) • Sourav Pal (2000) • Uday Maitra (2001) • Murali Sastry (2002) • T. K. Chakraborty (2003) • Srinivasan Sampath & K George Thomas (2006) • Amalendu Chandra & A Ajayghosh (2007) • T. Pradeep & Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008) • Charusita Chakravarty & Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009) • Swapan K Pati & Sandeep Verma (2010) Balasubramanian Sundaram & Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011)
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Categories:- Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science
- Indian scientists
- Recipients of the Padma Shri
- Institute directors
- Living people
- Harvard University people
- Carnegie Mellon University alumni
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur alumni
- Indian Institute of Science faculty
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