K. VijayRaghavan
| Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan | |
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| Born | 3 February 1954 |
| Institutions | The National Centre for Biological Sciences |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| Notable awards |
Padma Shri Fellow of the Royal Society Infosys Prize Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences. |
Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan FRS (born 3 February 1954) is Distinguished Professor and former Director of The National Centre for Biological Sciences. He is Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, India since 28 January 2013, replacing Maharaj Kishan Bhan. He was conferred the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India on 26 January 2013. He is also a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the life sciences category in 2009.
In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society. In April 2014 he was elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
VijayRaghavan graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975 and Masters in 1977. He completed his doctoral research in 1983 in the field of Molecular Biology and holds a Ph.D from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. During his post-doctoral work, from 1984 to 1985, he was a Research Fellow and then, from 1986 to 1988, a Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1988, he joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as a Reader and in 1992, when the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), which is under the aegis of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research was founded joined NCBS. In August 1991, he moved to Bangalore and was instrumental in the establishment of NCBS in Bangalore. He is Distinguished Professor in the field of Developmental Genetics and former Director of the National Centre of Biological Sciences.
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