Dr. Padmanabhan Balaram

Dr. Padmanabhan Balaram obtained his B.Sc. (1967) from Poona University, M.Sc. (1969) from IIT Kanpur and Ph.D. (1972) in chemistry from the Carnegie-Mellon University, USA. He was a Research Associate at Harvard University (1972-73). He served on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from 1973 to 2014. He was Director of the Institute from 2005-2014. He has contributed extensively to the areas of molecular biophysics and chemical biology.

He was the Editor of Current Science from 1995 to 2013, during which he authored over 300 editorials on diverse subjects related to science and scientists.

He is the recipient of several awards and honours, including Padma Shri (2002) and Padma Bhushan (2014). He is the recipient of the R. Bruce Merrifield Award 2021 of the American Peptide Society He is currently associated with the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore as the DST-YOS Chair Professor.