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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OSDD

Professor Samir K. Brahmachari is Secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.

Prof. Brahmachari's research work primarily revolved around DNA and its structure. He has pioneered functional genomics initiative in India and led the Indian Genome Variation Consortium. Recently, under his guidance, IGIB-CSIR has successfully mapped the human genome for the first time in India.

As a member of the Expert Group on Human Rights and Biotechnology Commission of United Nations, Prof. Brahmachari has also been involved in issues relating to Human Genome research ethics and Human Rights. His present passion is the CSIR-led Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project and the Pharmacogenomics Project for affordable health programme in India, with global participation.

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