Secretary-DSIR and Director General-CSIR
Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Open Source Drug Discovery
Open Source Drug Discovery(OSDD) is a CSIR led Team India Consortium with Global Partnership with a vision to provide affordable healthcare to the developing world.
Visits Abroad
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1979-96 |
1997-2007 |
2007 onwards |
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- Participated in workshop on “Chromatin structure”. Weizmann Institute of Sciences. Rehovot, Israel, March 1979.
- Visiting Scientist to Dept. of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada, Nov. 1979.
- Participated in first AMBO meeting on “Future of Nucleic Acid Research” in Kyoto, Japan, Dec, 1981, and visited several laboratories in Japan during 26th Nov. to 22nd Dec, 1981.
- Visitor, University of Ulm, West Germany, May 1985.
- Participation and paper presentation at the IVth conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y.USA, June 1985.
- Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Human Genetics and Development, University of Columbia, N.Y. USA, June-Sept. 1985.
- INDO-USSR ILTP exchange visit. Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, May 1988.
- Symposium speaker, 6th Convention in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y., USA,
June 1989. - Visitor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, June 1989.
- Visitor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Tufts University, Boston, USA. June 1989.
- Invited, speaker, 2nd International symposium of Protein Structure Functions, University of Karachi, Pakistan, Dec 1989.
- Participated and presented poster at the Gordon Research Conference on “Nuclear Proteins, Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation” Tilton school, New Hampshire, USA, July 1990.
- Visitor, Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, July 1990.
- Participated and presented paper at 10th International Biophysics Congress of IUPAB Vancouver, Canada, 29th July-3rd August 1990.
- Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Stanford Research International, Stanford, California, USA, Aug 1990.
- Invited speaker, International Symposium on “Synthetic Oligonucleotides: Problems and Frontiers of Practical Application”, Shemyakin Institute, Moscow, June 1991.
- INDO-USSR ILTP exchange visit. Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, July 1991.
- Symposium speaker, 8th Conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y., USA,
June 1993. - Visitor, Dept. of Biophysics, University Paris Nord, Paris, France, June 1993 (Hosted by Prof. E. Taillandier).
- Visitor, Dept of Biophysics, Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. C. Helene).
- Visitor, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University, New York University, New York, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. N. R. Kallenbach).
- Visitor, NIDDKD, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. H. T. Miles).
- Visitor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Dr. S. Adhya).
- Visitor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA, 1993 (Hosted by
Prof. Wilma Olson). - Visitor, Dept. of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Boston, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. A. Rich).
- Visitor, Dept. of Human Genome Centre, Boston University, Cambridge, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. Charles R. Cantor).
- Visitor, NIG, Japan, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. T. Gojobori).
- Visitor, Genome Science Laboratory, Riken, Japan 1996 (Hosted by Dr. Y. Hyashizaki).
- Visitor, Banyu Tsukuba Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Susumu Nishimura).
- Visitor, Human Genome Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Yoshiyuki Sakaki).
- Invited Speaker, Human Genome Treaty Symposium, Berlin, Germany, October 1996.
- Visitor, Institute of Human Genetic, Berlin, Germany, October, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Karl Sperling).
- Visitor, Institute fur Kristallagraphie, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. W. Saenger).
- Visitor, Max-Planck Inst. fur Biophysical Chem, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by
Prof. T. M. Jovin). - Visitor, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany October 1996 (Hosted by Dr. U. Heinmann).
- Visitor, Genetique Medicale Et. Development, Marseille, France, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. M.Fontes).
India cracks human genome
Brahmachari, the Director General of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India’s premier research organisation, says his colleagues at CSIR have achieved a great feat, just like the Lagaan team, without any international exposure or support. “We have now the competence and capacity as anybody else in the world,” Brahmachari adds. » Read more