Kambadur Muralidhar BSc, MSc, PhD

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.