Govindarajan Padmanaban
Indian biochemist and biotechnologist
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Early life and education
Padmanaban was brought up in a family of engineers. He belongs to the Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu but had settled in Bangalore. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Madras and master's degree in Soil Chemistry at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 1966.
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Research
In the early years of his research, he primarily worked in the transcriptional regulation of Eukaryotic genes in the liver. He was interested in elucidating the multifaceted role of heme in cellular processes. His group discovered the heme-biosynthetic pathway in the malarial parasite and showed it to be a drug target. He has also been interested in the area of vaccine development. His team was successful in showing the antimalarial property of Curcumin and its efficacy in combination therapy in 2004.
Awards
- Asian Scientist 100 (2025)
- Vigyan Ratna Award (2024)
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1983)
- Padma Shri (1991)
- Padma Bhushan (2003)
- Elected Fellowship of the National Academy of Medical Sciences