Govindarajan Padmanabhan

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Govindarajan Padmanabhan (born 20 March 1928 , Bangalore, India) is a renowned Biochemist and pioneer in the Indian Biotechnology . He was former director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and presently serving as honorary professor in the department of Biochemistry, IISC.

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[edit] Early Life and Education

Padmanabhan was brought up in a family of engineers. His parents belonged to Kollam district of Kerala but had settled in Bangalore. After completing his schooling in Bangalore, he joined an Engineering College. However, he found engineering uninteresting, and he joined the Presidency college in Chennai to complete a bachelors degree in chemistry. He completed his Masters in soil chemistry and PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 1966.

[edit] 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[1] in 2004.

[edit] Awards Won


[edit] References

  1. ^ "Curcumin for malaria therapy", Sciencedirect. 
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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science

M.S. Swaminathan (1961) • B.K.Bachhawat (1962) • D.S. Athwal (1964) • J. Barnabas (1974) • T.C.A. Kumar (1977) • A.N. Bhaduri (1979) • C. M. Gupta (1985) • M. Gadgil (1986) • B. Bhattacharyya (1988) • A. Bhattacharya (1994) • Seyed E Hasnain (1995) • Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1999) • Raghavan Varadarajan & Amitabha Mukhopadhyay (2002) • Gopal Chandra Kundu & Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004) • Tapas K. Kundu & Shekhar C. Mande (2005) • Vinod Bhakuni & Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006) • Upinder Singh Bhalla & Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007)
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