# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/indu-balachandran
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:13.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/indu-balachandran"
name: "Indu Balachandran"
slug: "indu-balachandran"
description: "Indira \"Indu\" Balachandran is a botanist and the director of Centre for Medicinal Plant Research (CMPR) in Malappuram, Kerala. Her research interest is in the area of plant taxonomy with a focus on the identification, standardization and ex-situ conservation of medicinal plants used in Ayurveda and other alternative medicine systems."
tagline: "Botanist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.61
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.068178666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Indira Balachandran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indu_Balachandran"
    title: "Indu Balachandran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indu_Balachandran"
    title: "Indu Balachandran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indu_Balachandran"
    title: "Indu Balachandran"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indu_Balachandran"
    title: "Indu Balachandran"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indu_Balachandran"
    title: "Indu Balachandran"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5915474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump