CHENNAI-BORN SHANKAR BALASUBRAMANIAN HONORED IN LONDON.
Posted on: 27/Mar/2010 6:09:54 AM
Shankar Balasubramanian of Cambridge University has been named Innovator of the year by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBSRC]. BBSRC is a London based Britain’s leading agency for academic research and training in Non-Clinical life sciences. Dr Shankar Balsubramanian has been selected in recognition of his work on Solexa Sequencing the high speed genome sequencing technology. The award aims to encourage research on faculties that has impact on the quality of life. This is the second year of the award. The award carries 10000 pounds.
Professor Douglas Kell, BBSRC chief executive expressed that the BBSRC was pleased to be able to recognize and reward researchers who were making extraordinary progress in translating their research into applications that would be of benefit socially .Professor Balasubramanian, whose parents moved to Britain a year after he was born from , graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and went on to do a PhD. He worked with David Klenerman of the department of chemistry, to invent low-cost and high-speed genome sequencing technology.
