Mysore :

Bhramara Trust of Y.T. and Madhuri Thathachari has organised a programme at Rani Bahadur Auditorium, Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences, Hunsur Road, on Apr. 24 at 5.30 pm, to present Bhramara’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Science -2014.

Prof. P. Balaram, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is the recipient of the Award.

Dr. K.S. Krishnan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, will be the chief guest. Prof. Ram Rajasekharan, Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore, will preside over the programme.

About Prof. P. Balaram: Prof. Balaram’s main research interests are in Bio-Organic Chemistry and Molecular Bio-Physics. He is the author of over 400 research papers. He received his M.Sc from IIT Kanpur (1969) and Ph.D in Chemistry from Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA (1972).

Prof. Balaram is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy. He has received many awards/honours in recognition of his work, of which mention must be made of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of CSIR (1986), Alumni Award for Excellence in Research from IISc (1991), TWAS Award in Chemistry (1994), G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (1994), Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur (2000), Padma Shri by the Government of India (2002) and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India (2014).

Prof. Balaram has delivered a number of lectures and has served on the Editorial Boards of journals, both national and international. He has served on many committees of the Government of India, and is currently a Member, Science Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet and Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, among others. He has been the Editor of “Current Science” during 1995-2013.

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