[7] Balasubramnian Gopal, born on 31 August 1970, completed his master's degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and started his career as a biochemist by joining Torrent Pharmaceuticals at their Ahmedabad station.
[8] Later, he took a break from his job and joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) from where he secured a PhD.
Returning to India, he joined the Molecular Biophysics Unit of IISc as a member of Lab 301[9] where he and his colleagues are engaged in researches on structural and mechanistic aspects of membrane-associated proteins involved in inter-cell communication, transcriptional regulation and mediate antimicrobial resistance.
[10] Gopal is known to have done considerable research in molecular biophysics[11] and has contributed to widening our understanding of the cell wall synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus, a common gram-positive bacterium found in human respiratory tract and skin.
[13] He has delivered keynote addresses at several seminars including the Graduate Students' Meet 2007[14] and the 2nd International Conference on Structural and Functional Genomics organised by Sastra university, Tanjore in August 2016.