Jayaraman Gowrishankar

Jayaraman Gowrishankar (born 1956) is an Indian medical microbiologist. Gowrishankar received his M.B.B.S. degree from the Christian Medical College, Vellore. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Melbourne.

He was a Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. In 2000, he was positioned as director for Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics. He served as director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali from 11 December 2019 till 2 March 2024.

He was awarded in 1991, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category. He was awarded in 2013, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards the field of science.

Civilian honours Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.

Research awards INSA Medal for Young Scientists, 1986 CSIR Young Scientist Award, 1987 BM Birla Prize. 1991 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 1991 JC Bose Fellowship, 2007 The 2012 Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award - American Society for Microbiology

Research highlights Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in E coli.