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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Member of Important Delegation of Govt. of India/ CSIR

Member, Indian delegation to attend 2nd Indo–US Round Table Dialogue meeting in Washington DC, September 2000.
Member, Indian delegation to Moscow to explore the possibility of bilateral co-operation with Russian Institutes in the area of Biomedical Research, organised by Department of Science & Technology, 6-12 October, 2002.
Member, Indian delegation to participate in the Indo-South African Workshop on advanced computing, organised by Department of Science & Technology at Pretoria, S. Africa, 28-29 October, 2002.
Member, Indian delegation to London to participate in the `India Day' celebrations on 11th December 2002 organised by the Royal Society, London.
Member, Indian delegation to Brussels to participate in the 1st Meeting of the India-EC S&T Steering Committee during March 3rd to 5th, 2004.
Member, Indian delegation to Russia for participation in the 12th Session of ILTP Joint Council Meeting in St. Petersburg and Joint Committee Meeting of the Russian-Indian Centre for Ayurvedic Research in Moscow from September 30 to October 4, 2004.
Member of the Indian delegation to Israel to attend the Workshop on “Promoting and Facilitating Innovation driven new ventures”, held from 29th May to 3rd June, 2005 at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, organised by TIFAC, DST.
Lead a group of Indian scientists to attend the Taiwan-India Joint Symposium on Functional Genomics on 3rd-4th March, 2006 at Taipei, Taiwan.
Member, Indian delegation to Brussels to participate in the 3rd Meeting of the India-EC S&T Steering Committee during November 16th-17th, 2006.

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