Associate Professor 

About the Faculty:

Research Fellow (2009 - 2013): Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR), Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA

PhD (2005 - 2009): Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

M.Pharm and B.Pharm (1994-2000): Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India 

Contact Details:

       Department of Pharmacy, Room # A016

       BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus

       Hyderabad 500078, India                   

       balaram@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

       91-4066303639 (Office); 91-9866941923

Employments:

06/2021 - Present: Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India 

09/2013 - 05/2021: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad, India. 

11/2009 - 08/2013: Research Fellow, Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR), Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 

11/2009 - 08/2013: Associate Researcher at Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.  

 08/2005 - 09/2009: Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. 

04/2004 - 05/2005: Project Fellow; UGC sponsored project at Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University. 

03/2000 - 04/2004: Teaching Faculty (Lecturer) at Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, North Bengal University, India. 

Awards:

Among the World's Top 2% Scientists as ranked by Stanford University (USA) of single year category in 2021 and 2022.

Research Excellence Award 2020 by Institute of Scholars (www.InSc.in)

Outstanding Scientist Award 2016 for the contribution and achievement in the field of Pharmaceutical Science: Venus International Foundation – Center for Advanced Research and Design.”

Best PhD Student Award: " Frank O Taylor" Fellowship awarded by the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA for outstanding performance in research and graduate studies (2008).

Graduate Research Assistantship, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA. 

Junior Research Fellowship from University Grant Commissions (UGC), India for M. Pharm. Studies.

National scholarship, Govt. of West Bengal for higher studies.

Best Poster Awards: "Development of Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors as Anticancer Agents": Prakruti Trivedi, Swati Biswas and Balaram Ghosh*; National Conference on Advanced Therapeutics-2016 (ACT-2016; CSIR-Chemical Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. 

One of our Research Molecules BG45 is commercially available in Merck/Sigma Aldrich and in Selleckchem.com [cat# S7689]

The second molecule named as PT3 developed in my Lab at BITS-Hyderabad synthesized by my first PhD student Prakruti Trivedi (PT) is also now available commercially in the Global Market   https://www.probechem.com/products_HDAC3inhibitorPT3.html--

Academic & Administration Experience:

Library Committee member (21.12.2023-20.12.2024)

A total of 24-years of experience in academics in research and teaching.

Reviewer and Editorial board member for various national and international journals.

Member of Department Research Committee (01.12.2020-30.11.2022)

Member Departmental Committees on Academics (19.09.2019 - till date)

Member of Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (12.10.2021-till date)

Member of the Vendor Committee of Hyderabad Campus (01.04.2022 to 25.12.2023)

Library Committee member (2014-2015 and 2023-2024)

Member of Occupational Safety Hazard Committee (2014-till date)

Membership in Professional bodies:

Life member of IPA (Indian Pharmaceutical Association)

Editorial board member and reviewer:

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

European Polymer Journal

Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics

Reactive and Functional Materials

Journal of Hazardous Material

Journal of Ethno Pharmacology

Drug Delivery Science and Technology

Bioorganic Chemistry

Journal of Molecular Science

Chemical Science

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Expert Opinion On Biological Therapy

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

RSC ChemMedChem

Drug Delivery

Biomaterial Science

Materials Science and Engineering C