Samir K Brahmachari

Secretary-DSIR and Director General-CSIR

Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Awards & Honours

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Memorial Award

The Indian Science Congress Association honored Prof. S.K.
Brahmachari with the S.S. Bhatnagar Memorial Award during the Inaugural
session of the 96th Indian Science Congress on 3 January 2009 at Shillong.

The Award was given to Prof. Brahmachari for his significant and lifetime
contribution to the development of Science and Technology in the country.

The Award seeks to honour his key contributions in the development of Science and
Technology – specifically in the area of Structural Biology, Disease Genomics
and Genome Analysis and also for the role he has played as an institution builder in this area; shaping the way this emerging field should develop in the future.

This prestigious award carries a Gold medal.

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Fellowships

Elected member
Guha Research Conference (India) 1986

Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Indian Academy of Sciences 1991

Elected member
Human Genome Organization (HUGO) 1991

Fellow
Indian National Science Academy 1995

Elected Council Member Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Federation of Asian & Oceanic 1995

Fellow
National Academy of Sciences 2000

Elected Council Member
Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) 2004

Fellow
Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI), RRL,Trivandrum 2005

Fellow
Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi 2010

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