Shankar Balasubramanian#
Photo: Nathan Pitt, © University of Cambridge
| Membership Number: | 6522 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.balasubramanian.co.uk/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Senior Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
- 2008 Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge (joint faculty appointment).
- 2007 - 2008 Professor of Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
- 2003 - 2007 Reader in Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
- 1998 - 2003 University Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
- 1994 - 1998 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
- 1991 - 1993 SERC/NATO Research Fellow, Penn State University, USA (lab of S J Benkovic)
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular biophysics
- Chemical biology of nucleic acids and the genome
- alternative DNA/RNA structures
- Gene regulation
- DNA sequencing
- Modified bases
Honours and Awards
- 2021 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (for sequencing technologies)
- 2021 2020 Millennium Technology Prize (for sequencing technologies)
- 2021 Honorary Doctorate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2018 Royal Medal (for sequencing)
- 2018 Paul Ehrlich Award (Société de Chimie Thérapeutique)
- 2017 Charlie Butcher Award, University of Colorado (for sequencing technologies)
- 2017 ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Biomolecular Technologies (sequencing)
- 2017 Knight Bachelor (Knighthood from the Queen; for sequencing)
- 2016 Honorary Doctorate, Glasgow University
- 2015 CRSI Medal of the Chemical Society of India
- 2014 Heatley Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society (for sequencing)
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate University of Liverpool
- 2013 Tetrahedron Prize for creativity in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
- 2012 Elected member of EMBO
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 2011 Elected Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2010 BBSRC Innovator of the Year
- 2009 Royal Society Mullard Award (for sequencing)
- 2002 Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1998 Glaxo-Wellcome Award for Innovative Organic Chemistry
