Padmanabhan Balaram

Padmanabhan Balaram
Alma materUniversity of Pune
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Carnegie Mellon University
AwardsPadma Bhushan
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Science
Doctoral advisorAksel A. Bothner-By

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). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society.