Career
Gowrishankar received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the Christian Medical College, University of Madras. 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 is positioned as director for Centre for deoxyribonucleic acid Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.
He was awarded in, 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.
Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India. Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic Ribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in East coli.