K. VijayRaghavan

1954 –

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Who is K. VijayRaghavan?

Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan FRS is Distinguished Professor and Director of The National Centre for Biological Sciences. He has become the Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, India on January 28, 2013, replacing Maharaj Kishan Bhan. He was conferred the honour of the Padma Shri by the Govt. of India on 26th January, 2013. He is also a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the life sciences category in 2009.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1975.He completed his doctoral work 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.

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Born
Feb 3, 1954
Also known as
  • Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan

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on July 23, 2013

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