Naresh Chandra Bal

Associate Professor

Naresh Chandra Bal has been a biology enthusiast since childhood, became focused on organismal physiology during his master’s degree in physiology from the School of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University in 1997. To add structural knowledge to his physiological understanding, he pursued PhD at the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow. He was awarded PhD degree by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). After PhD, he carried out research in several institutes in the USA for more than 8 years using various transgenic mouse models. Several major discoveries to his credit are sarcolipin as a basis of nonshivering thermogenesis in the skeletal muscle, functional interplay between muscle and brown adipose tissue, muscle-energy expenditure in causation of obesity, role of muscle thermogenesis in evolution of mammalian endothermy All these studies are published in high impact journals like Nature Medicine, Biological Reviews, and Journal of Biological Chemistry. He has been invited to present his research work at several important meetings including the Annual Scientific Meeting of The Obesity Society, 2009 and awarded with several reputed fellowships including American Physiological Society (APS), American Heart Association (AHA), National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India).

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