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Place of Birth: Cherpu, Kerala, India
About M. Vijayan
- Mamannamana Vijayan (born 16 October 1941, Cherpu, Kerala) is an Indian structural biologist.
- His main area of research is protein structures.
- His contributions have been towards the structure and carbohydrate specificity of lectins and protein hydration.
- He has also contributed towards the area of structure and interactions of mycobacterial proteins and supramolecular association with reference to chemical evolution and origin of life.
- Vijayan did biological macromolecular crystallography in India.He was awarded Padma Shri by the President of India in 2004.
- He was the President of the Indian National Science Academy from 2007–2010.
- Currently, he is DAE Homi Bhabha Professor at the Indian Institute of Science.
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