Jayaraman Gowrishankar (born 1956) is an Indian

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. Gowrishankar received his

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degree from the

Christian Medical College, Vellore Christian Medical College, Vellore, widely known as CMC, Vellore, is a private, Christian community-run medical school, hospital and research institute. This Institute includes a network of primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitals in a ...

. He holds

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in bacterial genetics from the

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. He was a Scientist and Group Leader at the

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology ( hi, कोशिकीय एवं आण्विक जीवविज्ञान केंद्र, IAST: ''Kośikīya evam āṇavik jīvavijñāna kendra'') or CCMB is an Indian fundamen ...

in Hyderabad. In 2000, he was positioned as director for

Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is an Indian biotechnology research centre, located in Hyderabad, India, operated by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. CDFD is a Sun ...

. Currently, he is the director of the

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (IISER Mohali) is an autonomous public university established in 2006 at Mohali, Punjab, India. It is one of the seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), estab ...

. He was awarded in 1991, the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

, the highest science award in

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, in the Biological sciences category. He was awarded in 2013, the

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards the field of science.

Civilian Honours

in 2013 by the Government of India.

Research Awards

*INSA Medal for Young Scientists, 1986 *CSIR Young Scientist Award, 1987 *BM Birla Prize. 1991 *

for 1991 *JC Bose Fellowship, 2007 *The 2012 Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award -

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Research highlights

*Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation *Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in E coli.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gowrishankar, Jayaraman Living people Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science 1956 births Scientists from Chennai Indian microbiologists Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering 20th-century Indian biologists