About Gurdyal Besra
Gurdyal Besra was a British microbiologist.
Gurdyal Singh Besra is a British scientist who is Bardrick Professor of Microbial Physiology & Chemistry at the University of Birmingham.
Education Besra was educated at Newcastle University where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree 1987 followed by a PhD for studies on the lipids of the leprosy bacillus in 1990.
Research and career Besra's research on tuberculosis focuses on Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall assembly. and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2013. He was awarded the Jeremy R. Knowles medal in 2014 by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
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