Balaram Ghosh

Biography

Balaram Ghosh obtained his BSc (Chemistry Honours) and MSc (Biochemistry) degrees from the University of Calcutta. He joined Bose Institute, Calcutta and worked on the metabolism of myo-Inositol phosphates under the guidance of Prof. B. B. Biswas and obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta. In 1983, he moved to University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington for his postdoctoral research where he worked with Prof. Asis Das and studied the molecular mechanism of antitermination by phage lambda in E.coli. In 1988, he joined as an Instructor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore where he later promoted as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Medicine. At Hopkins, he worked on the molecular characterization and T-cell epitope mapping of allergens. Later, he worked on the genetics of asthma and identified for the first time a genetic locus linked to asthma which is still regarded as one of the most significant discoveries in the field of asthma genetics. In 1995, he returned to India and joined as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Biochemical Technology (now Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology), Delhi.

Research Interest

Biochemistry, Immunology, Molecular Genetics