Kalpana Balakrishnan

Kalpana Balakrishnan
Balakrishnan in 2012
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Scientific career
Institutions	Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Thesis	Sulfhydral reagents regulate and modulate the cGMP-dependent cation channel of bovine rod photoreceptors (1990)

Kalpana Balakrishnan is an Indian medical researcher who is a professor and Dean (Research) at the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research. Her research has been in the area of air pollution and environmental health risk assessments with a special focus on low and middle income countries. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences.