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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Balaji Prakash<br />
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| birth_date = 1968<br />
| birth_place = India<br />
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| residence = [[Mysore]], [[Karnataka]], India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Structural biology]] | [[Biochemistry]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] | [[IIT Kanpur]] | [[Central Food Technological Research Institute]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on [[GTP-binding protein]]<br />
| awards = {{ublist| 2009&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Balaji Prakash''' (born 1968) is an Indian structural biologist, biochemist and the Associate Dean of Sciences & Professor, Biological and Life Sciences, at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, since July 2020. Prior to this he served as senior principal scientist and the head of the department of molecular nutrition of the [[Central Food Technological Research Institute]]. Known for elucidating the structure of a unique [[GTP-binding protein]], Prakash is an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] and was a senior research fellow of [[The Wellcome Trust, UK]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2009.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Central Food Technological Research Institute front view.jpg|thumb|235px|CFTRI]]<br />
Balaji Prakash, born in 1968,<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=P |title=NASI fellows |date=2018-01-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-12}}</ref> did his doctoral studies at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] and after securing a PhD in 1996, he completed his post-doctoral work at [[Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology]] in 2002.<ref name="Structural Biology lab">{{Cite web |url=http://home.iitk.ac.in/~bprakash/ |title=Structural Biology lab |date=2018-01-21 |website=home.iitk.ac.in |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> Returning to India, he joined [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] the same year as an assistant professor at the Special Center for Molecular Medicine but his stay there lasted only 7 months.<ref name="Link to Lab Webpage">{{Cite web |url=http://118.151.209.90/getprofile.php?file=2363 |title=Link to Lab Webpage |date=2018-01-21 |website=IIT Kanpur |access-date=2018-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122001112/http://118.151.209.90/getprofile.php?file=2363 |archive-date=22 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 2002, he joined the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] at their Department of Biological Sciences and Bio-Engineering where he later served as an associate professor from 2005 to 2010 and as a professor from 2010 to 2014. It was at this time, he took a long leave from the institute<ref name="BSBE Faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/balaji-prakash |title=BSBE Faculty |last=Ailza |date=2018-01-21 |website=www.iitk.ac.in |language=en-gb |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> to join the Department of Molecular Nutrition of the [[Central Food Technological Research Institute]] as a senior principal scientist, a position he holds to date.<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cftri.com/faculty_detail/2363 |title=Faculty profile |date=2018-01-21 |website=www.cftri.com |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> He also serves as a [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] recognized faculty at the [[Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research]].<ref name="AcSIR – Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research – Faculty List">{{Cite web |url=http://acsir.res.in/facultylist/ |title=AcSIR – Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research – Faculty List |date=2018-01-21 |website=acsir.res.in |language=en-US |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Prakash's research focus is on [[enzyme catalysis]], with special interest in the enzyme family composed of [[GTPases]], [[kinases]] and sugar [[nucleotidyltransferases]], as well as the development of [[peptides]] for food industry.<ref name="Faculty profile" /> During his post-doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, he elucidated the structure of a GTP-binding protein.<ref name="BSBE Faculty" /> At CFTRI, he has worked on molecular nutrition and the development of [[nutraceuticals]] and has developed a technology titled ''Microbes based printing for fabrication of electronic circuits'' for which he holds the patent; another of his invention, ''A novel device for crystallizing proteins and protein complexes or other biological macromolecules'', is being prepared for patent submission.<ref name="Link to Lab Webpage" /> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VnvVCWsAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2018-01-20 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 55 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Balaji_Prakash |title=On ResearchGate |date=2018-01-20 |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref> Besides, he has delivered invited speeches at seminars including the ''2nd Indo-American Frontiers of Science Symposium'' held at Irvine, California in 2006 and was a senior research fellow of the [[Wellcome Trust]] in 2004.<ref name="Faculty profile" /><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
The [[Department of Biotechnology]] (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2009.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-date=4 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2011, he was elected as a member of the [[Guha Research Conference]]<ref name="Faculty profile" /> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]elected him as a fellow in 2013.<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2018-01-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-12}}</ref><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Vishweshwaraiah |first1=Yashavanth L. |last2=Prakash |first2=Balaji |last3=Gowda |first3=Lalitha R. |title=Expression profiling of the Dolichos lablab lectin during germination and development of the seed |journal=Plant Physiology and Biochemistry |volume=124 |pages=10–19 |doi=10.1016/j.plaphy.2017.12.040|pmid=29324242 |year=2018 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Bais |first1=Vaibhav Singh |last2=Mohapatra |first2=Balaram |last3=Ahamad |first3=Nadim |last4=Boggaram |first4=Sanjana |last5=Verma |first5=Sandeep |last6=Prakash |first6=Balaji |title=Investigating the inhibitory potential of 2-Aminopurine metal complexes against serine/threonine protein kinases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis |journal=Tuberculosis |volume=108 |pages=47–55 |doi=10.1016/j.tube.2017.10.005|pmid=29523327 |year=2018 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Vithani |first1=Neha |last2=Batra |first2=Sahil |last3=Prakash |first3=Balaji |last4=Nair |first4=Nisanth N. |date=2017-01-06 |title=Elucidating the GTP Hydrolysis Mechanism in FeoB: A Hydrophobic Amino-Acid Substituted GTPase |journal=ACS Catalysis |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=902–906 |doi=10.1021/acscatal.6b03365}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Bowman–Birk protease inhibitor]]<br />
* [[Dolichos lablab]]<br />
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* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su4_sZHtWTk |title=OSDD - relevance of computational methods |date=19 September 2012 |website=YouTube |format=video |access-date=2018-01-20}}<br />
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