K. Narayanaswamy Balaji is an Indian medical scientist. He was born in

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. He holds a position at the Indian Institute of Science in

. In 2011, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in

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, in the medical sciences category. He is also the recipient of the

National Bioscience Award for Career Development The National Bio-science Award for Career Development or N-BIOS Prize is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines. It was instituted in 1999 by the Department of Biotechnology of the Gov ...

, awarded in 2009. In 2019, he retracted two and corrected three papers for image duplication.

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