Bs Ramakrishna
Gastroenterology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Balakrishnan Siddartha Ramakrishna did his MBBS (1974), MD (Medicine) (1979) and DM (Gastroenterology) (1983), all from Christian Medical College, Vellore, and PhD (Medicine) from Madras University. He worked for two years at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia doing both clinical work and using isolated colonic epithelial cells for metabolic and other functional studies. He also had training for three months at Yale University School of Medicine studying intestinal ion transport at the membrane level. In 1993, he had hands-on training in molecular biology in relation to gastrointestinal infections. He spent his entire academic career at the Christian Medical College, Vellore.
Research Interest
Gastroenterology
