- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
Shankar Balasubramanian, a professor of chemistry and DNA expert at Cambridge University, has received a knighthood – the highest accolade from the Queen – in the New Year honours list. The 50-year-old, who was born in Chennai in India and brought to the UK by his parents a year later, is Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Cambridge University. He was recognised for his work as a co-inventor of Next Generation DNA sequencing, described as the most transformational advance in biology and medicine for decades. Balasubramanian is also a senior group leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute…
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