Tanjore S. Balganesh

Dr. Tanjore S. Balganesh was the Project Head of the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Unit of CSIR, the national laboratory system of India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, University of Calcutta, India and subsequently spent post-doctoral years with Dr. Sanford Lacks at Brookhaven National Laboratories Brookhaven (NY, USA). Later he was associated with Professor Thomas Trautner at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics at Berlin (Germany). He joined Astra Research Centre India as a Senior Scientist in 1987. He took over as Head of Research at AstraZeneca R&D India in 2000 focusing the unit on discovering novel drugs for the treatment of Tuberculosis. Further as a VP Discovery Research AZ, he handled all the research activities of this R&D unit. In 2011, Dr. Balganesh was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Dr. Balganesh is a member of the OSPF Board of Directors.