Dr. Naresh Chandra Bal
Associate Professor
Naresh Chandra Bal has several major discoveries to his credit are sarcolipin as a basis of nonshivering thermogenesis in 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, functional characterization of myokines. All these studies are published in high impact journals like Nature Medicine, Biological Reviews, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biochemical Journal and Biofactors. He has been awarded with several reputed fellowships including American Physiological Society (APS); American Heart Association (AHA); National Institute of Health (NIH); Department of Biotechnology, India. He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
PhD
COURSE EXPERTISE
Animal Physiology, Metabolism, Biochemistry
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Skeletal muscle metabolism; Anti-diabetic drug development
Awards and Achievements
- Fellowship from Royal Society of Biology, UK (2024)
- Visiting Professorship, University of Central Florida, Orlando USA (2019)
- Early Career Research Award, SERB, India (2017)
- Visiting Scholarship, SBPMRI, Orlando USA (2016)
- Ramalingaswami Fellowship, DBT, India (2016)
- K01 Award, NIH, USA (2015)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship from AHA (2010)
- Physiological Genomics Fellowship, APS (2010)
- Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR (2004)
- Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR (2002)
Professional Membership
Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, UK