Kambadur Muralidhar
Professor
South Asian University
India
Biography
Kambadur Muralidhar is a distinguised Biologist of our country and was born at Coimbatore,Tamil Nadu.He obtained his BSc and MSc from Osmania University, Hydrabad. He Started his research work under LK Ramachandran, at Osmania in the summer of 1969.He obtained his PhD from IISc,Bangalore in 1976 working under NR Moudgal. His PhD work,demonstrating that beta subunit of Luteinizing Hormone can bind ovarian receptors fetched him the Prof KV Giri Memorial Gold medal for the best PhD thesis of the year. He was selected for the first Lecturership in the School of Life Sciences at the newly founded Central University of Hydrabad in August 1976. During 1979-81 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at SUNY,Buffalo,New York,USA with OP Bahl. His Work led to the development of the most sensitive RIA for HCG,a pregnancy hormone.He also demonstrated the immuno-contraceptive vaccine potential of DS5-hCG beta subunit. He joined the University of Delhi in 1983 as Reader in Biochemistry and became a Professor in Endocrinology in 1988. He was Chairman of the Department during 2001-2004.
Research Interest
Embryo transfer technology, Cell and Molecular Biology