British-Indian professor receives knighthood from Queen
Shankar Balasubramanian, an Indian-origin British professor has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to the field of science and medicine. The Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Cambridge University was honoured for his work as a co-inventor of Next Generation DNA sequencing. "His work has spawned an entirely new discipline of Bioinformatics," his citation read.