Dorairajan Balasubramanian
Biophysics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Balasubramanian did his BSc (1957) from Presidency College, Madras and MSc (1959) from Birla College, Pilani. He obtained his PhD degree (1965) in Chemistry from Columbia University, New York, USA, working in the area of polypeptide synthesis and conformations, using structural spectroscopy. After 18 months of post-doctoral research at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the area of protein chemistry (particularly the study of hydrophobic interactions), he returned to India in 1967 and joined IIT, Kanpur. In 1977, he moved to the University of Hyderabad and in 1982 to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), where he was Deputy Director and later became Director. He took early retirement from CCMB in 1998 to join the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, as its Director of Research, a position he continues to hold.
Research Interest
Biophysical Chemistry,Biomolecular Interactions, Ocular Biochemistry, Protein Structure
