Balaram Mukhopadhyay

His journey with the world of carbohydrates is started when he enrolled for doctoral studies at the Indian Association For The Cultivation Of Science (IACS), Kolkata, under the guidance of Prof. Nirmolendu Roy and after securing a Ph.D. in 2001, he moved to the UK for the post-doctoral studies, under the supervision of Robert A Field of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (2001–2005).

[3] After 4 years of Post-doctoral studies, Balaram joined as a Scientist-C at the Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division in Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow.

[7] The prime research focus of Balaram is to develop strategies for the chemical synthesis of biologically relevant oligosaccharides from bacterial or plant origin.

He and his group synthesized several bacterial O-antigen repeating units of E. Coli, Shigella, Salmonella and Pseudomonas to name a few.

Depending on the carbohydrate-lectin interaction, Balaram's group is developing carbohydrate decorated multivalent dendrimers as lectin sensors.