Governing Body
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Dr. Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale Member (Ex-officio) (Chairperson GB)
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
New Delhi
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Dr. Anand Suresh Deshpande (Member, Co-Chairperson GB)
Founder, Chairman and MD, Persistent Systems,
Maharashtra
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Shri Vishvajit Sahay Member (Ex-officio)
Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
New Delhi
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Dr. Alka Sharma
Member (Ex-officio)
Senior Adviser/Scientist ‘H’, Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
New Delhi – 110003
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Shri Chaitanya Murti Member (Ex-officio)
Joint Secretary,
Department of Biotechnology (DBT),
New Delhi
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Dr. (Mrs.) N. Kalaiselvi Member (Ex-officio)
Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), New Delhi
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Prof. Abhay Karandikar Member
Secretary,
Department of Science & Technology,
Govt. of India,
New Delhi
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Shri Pankaj Ramanbhai Patel
Member (Expert)
Chairman, Zydus Lifesciences Ltd (formerly known as Cadila Healthcare Limited), Director and Chairman Board of Zydus Foundation, Ahmedabad
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Prof. Govindan Rangarajan Member (Expert)
Director,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
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Prof. Usha Vijayraghavan Member (Expert)
Dean of Biological Science Division,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
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Dr. Vijay Murlidhar Chauthaiwale
Member (Expert)
Senior Adviser,
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM),
NITI Aayog,
New Delhi
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Prof. M Srinivas
Member (Expert)
Director, AIIMS, New Delhi Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Former Dean of Employees’ State Insurance Company (ESIC) Hospital and Medical College, Hyderabad
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Prof. Shalini Bharat Member (Expert)
Former Director, Vice Chancellor,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai
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Dr. S Sivaramakrishna Pillai
Member (Expert)
Co-founder & Director (R&D),
Proklean Technologies Pvt Ltd,
Chennai
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Dr. Gautham Nadig
Member (Expert)
Co-founder and Executive Director
Mynvax,
Bangalore
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Prof. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee
Member (Ex-officio)
Director, Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Imphal
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Prof. Ashwani Pareek
Member (Ex-officio)
Director, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute,
Mohali
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Dr. Subhra Chakraborty
Member (Ex-officio)
Director, National Institute of Plant Genome Research,
New Delhi
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Dr. Chandrabhas Narayana
Member (Ex-officio)
Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology,
Thiruvananthapuram
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Dr. Debasisa Mohanty
Member (Ex-officio)
Director, National Institute of Immunology,
New Delhi
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Dr. Jitendra Kumar
Member (Ex-officio)
MD, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC),
New Delhi
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Dr. Kalaivani Ganesan
Nodal Officer/Member Secretary, BRIC
Scientist 'F', DBT