- Govindarajan Padmanabhan
Govindarajan Padmanabhan (born
20 March 1928 ,Bangalore, India ) is a renowned Biochemist and pioneer in the Indian biotechnology . He was former director of theIndian Institute of Science (IISc) and presently serving as honorary professor in the department of biochemistry, IISC.Early Life and Education
Padmanabhan was brought up in a family of engineers. His parents belonged to
Kollam district ofKerala but had settled in Bengalore. After completing his schooling in Bangalore, he joined an Engineering College. However, he found engineering uninteresting, and he joined the Presidency college inChennai to complete a bachelors degree in chemistry. He completed his masters in soil chemistry and PhD fromIISc ,Bangalore in 1966.Research
In the early years of his research, he primarily worked in the transcriptional regulation of Eukaryotic genes in the liver. His team was successful in showing the anti-malarial property of
Curcumin in 2004 [cite news
title = Curcumin for malaria therapy
url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WBK-4DVB9ST-3&_user=123215&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000010181&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=123215&md5=bceac644f64edc850256ebea3e5b3460
work = Sciencedirect] .Awards Won
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1999)
*Padma Shri (1991)
*Padma Bhushan (2004)References
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