ACADEMICS

Postdoctoral Research - Baylor College of Medicine, U.S.A., 1974-76
Ph.D. - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India., 1973
M.Sc. - Bangalore University, 1968
B.Sc. - Bangalore University, 1966

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTION YEAR POSITION
Baylor College of Medicine, USA 1974-75 Research Associate
Baylor College of Medicine, USA 1975-76 Instructor
Baylor College of Medicine, USA 1976-78 Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1978-82 Sr. Research Fellow, IISc
Indain Institute of Science, Bangalore 1982-87 Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1987-91 Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1991-09 Professor, IISc
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1990-93 Chairman, Centre for Genetic Engineering
Baylor College of Medicine, USA 1983 Visiting Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, USA 1986 Research Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School, USA 1998-90 Visiting Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School, USA 1993 Visiting Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1998-03 Chairman - Dept. of Biochemistry
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California at San Diego, USA 1998 Visiting Scientist
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2001-03 Astra Professor
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 2003 - till date President

AWARDS / HONOURS

  • Padma Shri in Science and Engineering category, Government of India, 2010.
  • Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Medal Lecture, 2008.
  • Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Bio Medical Research of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 2005.
  • JC Bose National Fellwoship in recognition of outstanding performance and contributions in the area of Life Sciences of Department of Science and Technology (DST) (2006-10).
  • FICCI Award 2004-05 for the signficant work in the category of R&D in Life Sciences, Including Agriculture and Biotechnology.
  • O.P. Bhasin Award for Biotechnology, 2002.
  • Sir Mellanby Memorial Lecture of Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, 2002.
  • Ranbaxy Science Foundation Award for Basic Medical Sciences, 1999.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship of American Cancer Society, 1993.
  • Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Fellowship, 1988-90.
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for Biological Sciences, 1988.
  • P. S. Sarma Award of Society of Biological Chemists (India).
  • Sir M. Visveswaraiah Senior Scientist State award for the year 2004 for life time contributions for the development of Science and Technology.
  • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India.
  • Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India.
  • Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India.
  • Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Chairman of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Trivandrum, Kerala.
  • Member, Editorial  Board of International Journal of Human Genetics
  • Co-Chairman, Recruitment and Assessment Board, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
  • Member, Pharmaceuticals R&D Support Fund (PRDSF), DST.
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of NICED, Kolkata.
  • Member, Selection/Search Committee of CSIR Directors.
  • Member, Governing Board of IBAB, Bangalore.
  • Member, Indo-Japan JSPS Science Council.
  • Member, ICMR National Laboratory Animal Welfare Committee (NLAWAC).
  • Member, Governing Council of NCPGR, New Delhi.
  • Member, Indo-Brazil Science Council.
  • Member, Board of Dabur Research Foundation.
  • Member, Task Force on Chronic Disease Biology, DBT.
  • Member, Swarnajayanti Fellowship Committee (Life Sciences).
  • Member, Steering Committee for the Establishment of National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (DBT)
  • Expert Member, Scientific Advisory committee (Molecular Biology), Bose Institute, Kolkatta.
  • Member, Advisory committee for Medical Bioscicnes Park, Internaional Centre for Cardio Thoraic and Vascular Diseases, Chennai.
  • Chairman, Monitoring Committee of Dosha Prakruta project of PSA office.
  • Member, Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize committee for Biology.
  • Chairperson, Task Force on Human Genetics and Genome Analysis, DBT.
  • Chairperson, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit (MBGU), JNCASR (2003-08).
  • Expert Member for the working group under the steering committee on Science and Technology for the formulation of Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12).
  • Member, Task Force on Chronic Disease Biology, DBT (2005).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR) (2005).
  • Member, CSIR Monitoring Committee of Network Project on Toxicogenomics of polymorphism in Indian population to industrial chemicals for development of biomarkers (2004-07).
  • Member, Sectional Committee of Biochemistry, INSA, (2004-06).
  • Member, Sectional Committee of Medicine, Indian Academy of Sciences (2004-06).
  • Chairman, Research Council, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata (2004-06).
  • Chairman, Indian Joint Working Group for the Indo-US Programme on Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Research, (2004-07).
  • Chairman, Organizing Committee of the FAOBMB Congress (2003).
  • Member, Scientific Council of Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (2002-06).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee on Molecular Diagnostics Center of Dabur  Research Foundation (2002-04).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee on Cancer Research, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2002).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of Madras Diabetic Research Foundation (2002-04).
  • Convenor, Sectional Committee on Interdisciplinary (Biology) of INSA (2001).
  • Member, Council of Indian National Science Academy (1999-01).
  • Member, Committee to Restructure the Sectional Committees of INSA (2001).
  • Chairman, Research  Council, CCMB (CSIR), Hyderabad (2001-03).
  • Member, Evaluation Committee of CSIR to assess Scientists ‘F’ (2001).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee on GENOMICS, ICMR (2001).
  • Member, UGC committee for National Accredetion of University Departments (2001).
  • Chairman, Steering Committee of NMITLI project of CSIR on Cancer Genomics (2001-03).
  • Member, Academic Advisory Committee of JNCASR, Bangalore (2001-03).
  • President, Society of Biological Chemists (India) 2001-04 (Two Terms).
  • Member, Research Advisory Committee of SPIC Science Foundation (2000-04).
  • Member, Task Force on Human Genetics and Genome Analysis, DBT (2000-02).
  • Member, Council of Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta (2000-02).
  • Member, Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation, DBT (1999-01).
  • Convenor, Sectional Committee on Biochemistry of INSA (1999-00).
  • Member, Sectional Committee  on Biochemistry of INSA (1999-01).
  • Consulting member of IUBMB to formulate gudielines for Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences (1998).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, CDFD, Hyderabad (1997-99 & 2000-02).
  • Member, Sectional Committee  on Biochemistry of INSA (1996-98).
  • Member, Sub Committee of Task Force of  DBT on Human Genetics (1995-97).
  • Member, Task Force of  DBT on Man Power Development (1994-97).
  • Member, Research Advisory Panel of National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi  (1993-98 & 1999-03).
  • Member, Research Council of Institute of Microvial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh (1992-95 & 1995-98).
  • Member, Programme Advisory Committee of DST on Molecular Biology (1991-94).
  • Member, Programme Advisory Committee of DST on Reproductive Biology (1988-91).