S. Ganesh

Born on 23 May 1968[1] in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ganesh completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Madras in 1988 and earned an MSc in 1990.

On his return to India in 2002, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) as a member of faculty at the department of biological sciences and bio-engineering (BSBE) where he serves as the P.K.

[12] Ganesh is the chief editor of IITK Directions, a Springer publication[13] and has also prepared video lecture courses for the National Programming on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

[19] The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2012;[20][21] the same year as he received the CDRI Award of the Central Drug Research Institute.

[22] He received the Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 2014[23] and the Scientist Award of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India in 2016.

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