British Indian chemist in Millennium Tech Prize winning team for revolutionary DNA tech
British Indian chemist in Millennium Tech Prize winning team for revolutionary DNA tech
Shankar Balasubramanian, an India-born British professor of medicinal chemistry, was among one of the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for development of revolutionary DNA techniques.
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UPDATED: May 19, 2021 09:23 IST
Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman were declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize. (Representative Image)
Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman were on Tuesday declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize, a prestigious global science and technology prize awarded for their development of revolutionary sequencing techniques which means DNA can now be read in super-fast times.