Ch. Mohan Rao
Professor
Molecular Biology
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
India
Biography
Ch. Mohan Rao is an Indian molecular biologist. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Hyderabad. He was a visiting associate at the National Institutes of Health, US, during 1990–92. He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo Science University, Japan during 1996. He is positioned as director for the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India. He was awarded in 1999 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Medical Sciences category.
Research Interest
His recent research addresses role of small heat shock proteins in gene expression, cell division, differentiation and apoptosis.
Publications
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B.Raman and Ch. Mohan Rao: Chaperone like activity and quaternary structure of alpha-crystallin J.Biol. Chem., 269, 27264-27268, 1994.
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Balasubramanian, D., Ch. Mohan Rao, and Panijpan, B.: The malaria parasite monitored by photoacoustic spectroscopy. Science, 223, 828-830, 1984.
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Ch. Mohan Rao and Balasubramanian, D. Study of a solid state reaction by photoacoustic spectroscopy. J. Physical Chemistry, 86, 939-943, 1982.
