Balasubramanian Senthilkumaran has been awarded the JC Bose Fellowship of Science and Engineering Research Board (2023), Government of India
Published Date – 01:56 PM, Tue – 3 October 23
UoH JC Bose award winner Balasubramanian Senthilkumaran
Hyderabad: Balasubramanian Senthilkumaran, a senior professor at University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been awarded the JC Bose Fellowship of Science and Engineering Research Board (2023), Government of India.
The fellowship was awarded in recognition of the outstanding performance of Senthilkumaran in the research area of Fish Molecular Endocrinology and Reproductive Biology.
The Fellow will receive a fellowship amount of Rs. 25,000 pm and a research grant of Rs. 15 lakh per annum, and is provided for a period of five years.
Prof. Senthilkumaran had made significant and innovative contributions in understanding the sex differentiation as well as gonadal development at various stages of the life cycle of bony fishes.
He is a pioneer in developing novel transient gene silencing in fish to understand their gene function. He is the one who developed the concept of “brain sex differentiation” in fishes.
