
Shankar Balasubramanian
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
Professor,University of Cambridge
Election motivation
For contributions to the mechnism of the incidence and potential causal role(s) of G-quadruplexes and for developing new methodologies of next generation DNA sequencing, DNA modifications and secondary structures.
Field of research
Biochemistry
Main Honors
2025 Khorana Prize
Fellow, American Association of Cancer Research(2025)
Member, National Academy of Sciences(2024)
Member, Academia Europe(2023)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (with Professor Sir David Klenerman and Dr Pascal Mayer)2022
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences