Born on 23 May 1968[1] in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ganesh completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Madras in 1988 and earned an MSc in 1990.[2] Subsequently, he joined the Banaras Hindu University for his doctoral studies to secure a PhD in 1996. His post-doctoral work was at the Indian Institute of Science from 1997 to 1998 after which he moved to Japan to start his career as a staff scientist at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute. On his return to India in 2002, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) as a member of faculty at the department of biological sciences and bio-engineering (BSBE) where he serves as the P.K. Kelkar Chair Professor.[3] At IITK, he has set up his laboratory of human molecular genetics, popularly known as Ganesh Laboratory, and is the principal investigator, while hosting many research scholars.[4]
Ganesh resides in IIT Campus in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.[5]
Legacy
Lafora disease has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance
Ganesh's research focus has been in the fields of human molecular genetics and neuroscience and he is known to have carried out extensive work on the genetic forms of neurodegenerative disorders.[6] During his early days at IITK, he led a team of scientists researching on the Lafora disease (LD) to establish the role played by LD proteins in protein quality control and their work widened the understanding of the disorder.[7] Later, he focused his work to other neurodegenerative disorders such as central nervous system diseases, cardiovascular disorders and developmental disorders,[8] with emphasis on their pathways, while working on developing new therapeutic protocols.[3][9] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[10][11][note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 93 of them.[12]
Ganesh is the chief editor of IITK Directions, a Springer publication[13] and has also prepared video lecture courses for the National Programming on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).[14] The invited speeches delivered by him include the one on the Role of non-coding RNAs in cellular stress response, delivered in 2016 at the 82nd annual meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences.[7] He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Genetics of the Indian Academy of Sciences[15] and is a former editorial board member of Meta Gene and Gene Reports, both Elsevier publications.[2]
