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Padmanabhan Balaram
Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan (2014) as well as the TWAS Prize (1994).
Education.
Balaram received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, University of Pune followed by a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University with Aksel A. Bothner-By. After
Padmanabhan Balaram, a noted biochemist and Padma Bhushan laureate. He joined the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in 1980 as a scientist where he heads a team of scientists and pursues his researches on "structure-function correlations in peptide antibiotics". He has done considerable work on signal peptides and peptide antibiotics and their structure-function relationships. He is known to have suggested a protocol by which hemolytic and antibacterial properties of the "synthetic analogs of bacterial toxins" could be separated, an invention which is reported