Rajan Sankaranarayanan |
Group leader,
Structural Biology Laboratory, CCMB, Hyderabad-500 007, INDIA +91 -(0)40 - 27192832/2835 Fax : +91-(0)40-27160591 Email : [email protected] |
Dr. Rajan Sankaranarayanan has obtained his bachelor's and master's in physics from Madurai Kamaraj University and his Ph.D from the Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1996. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at IGBMC, Strasbourg, France from 1996-2002. Dr. Sankaranarayanan, upon returning to India in 2002, has set up a state-of-the-art macromolecular crystallography laboratory and carrying out research in the field of Structural Biology. At CCMB, his group has made outstanding contributions in the area of "Proofreading during protein biosynthesis". He has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellowship, UK in 2003, Swarnajayanthi fellowship of the DST, India in 2005-2006, National Bioscience Award of DBT in 2008, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in 2011, GN Ramachandran Gold Medal in 2015 and Infosys Science Prize in 2020. He is an Associate Editor of 'Journal of Structural Biology' and Board of Reviewing Editor of the journal 'eLife'. He is also a fellow of all the three major science academies of the country. Recently, he has been elected as an Associate Member of the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
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