##Rao M. R. S.

M. R. SATYANARAYANA RAO FNASc, FASc, FNA, FAMS, FTWAS

Professor
Chromatin Biology Laboratory
Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit (MBGU)
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
Bangalore, India.

ACADEMICS

Postdoctoral Research - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, 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	1988 - 90	Visiting Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School, USA	1993	Visiting Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	1998 - 03	Chairman, Department 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.
The 1st "Prof. N. Appaji Rao Best Mentor Award" -2011 of Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association (IIScAA), Bangalore.
The II^nd Abhijit Guha Oration Award of the Indian Society of Neuro-Oncology, India, 2010.
The IX^th Smt. Subhadra Dayananda Rao Oration award of National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India, 2010.
Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Medal Lecture, 2008.
Prof. S. Chandrasekhar Memorial Lecture at Centre for Liquid Crystal Research (CLCR), Department of Science and Technology, Bangalore.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Bio Medical Research of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 2005.
J.C. 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, Bhasin Foundation, Delhi, 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 (FASc), Bangalore, India.
Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (FNA), New Delhi, India.
Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad, India.
Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences (FAMS), India.
Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Ex-Chairman of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Trivandrum, Kerala.
Member, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.
Member, Editorial Board of International Journal of Human Genetics.
Senior member, Editorial board of American Journal of Cancer Research (AJCR).
Co-Chairman, Recruitment and Assessment Board, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
Member, Pharmaceutical Research and Development Support Fund (PRDSF), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Kolkata.
Member, Selection/Search Committee of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) institutes directors.
Member, Governing Board of Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore.
Member, Indo-Japan (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS) Science Council.
Member, ICMR National Laboratory Animal Welfare Committee (NLAWAC).
Member, Governing Council of National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi.
Member, Indo-Brazil Science Council.
Member, Board of Dabur Research Foundation.
Member, Task Force on Chronic Disease Biology, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India.
Member, Swarnajayanti Fellowship Committee (Life Sciences), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.
Member, Steering Committee for the Establishment of National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (DBT), India.
Expert Member, Scientific Advisory committee (Molecular Biology), Bose Institute, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Kolkatta.
Member, Advisory committee for Medical Biosciences Park, International 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, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India.
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, India (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, Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (2004-06).
Member, Sectional Committee of Medicine, Indian Academy of Sciences (2004-06).
Chairman, Research Council, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), 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 Federation of Asian and Oceanic Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (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 Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (2001).
Member, Council of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (1999-01).
Member, Committee to Restructure the Sectional Committees of INSA (2001).
Chairman, Research Council of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad (2001-03).
Member, Evaluation Committee of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to assess Scientists ‘F’ (2001).
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee on Genomics, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2001).
Member, University Grants Commission (UGC) committee for National Accredetion of University Departments (2001).
Chairman, Steering Committee of New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI) project of CSIR on Cancer Genomics (2001-03).
Member, Academic Advisory Committee of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (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 Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (1999-00).
Member, Sectional Committee on Biochemistry of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (1999-01).
Consulting member of International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) to formulate gudielines for Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences (1998).
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad (1997-99 & 2000-02).
Member, Sectional Committee on Biochemistry of Indian National Science Academy (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 Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh (1992-95 & 1995-98).
Member, Programme Advisory Committee of Department of Science and Technology (DST) on Molecular Biology (1991-94).
Member, Programme Advisory Committee of Department of Science and Technology (DST) on Reproductive Biology (1988-91).