# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/padmanabhan-balaram
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:37:04.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/padmanabhan-balaram"
name: "Padmanabhan Balaram"
slug: "padmanabhan-balaram"
description: "Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan (2014) as well as the TWAS Prize (1994). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society."
tagline: "Indian biochemist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1949-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump