Kamala Krishnaswamy


Kamala Krishnaswamy is an Indian scientist in nutrition. She was the director of the National institute of Nutrition. She was also president of the Nutrition Society of India.

Biography

She earned her MBBS and MD in Internal Medicine from Osmania University. She did training in clinical pharmacology in the Karolinska institute in Sweden under a World Health Organization fellowship. She joined the National institute of Nutrition in 1964 and became its director in 1997.