Samir K. Brahmachari,
J C Bose National Fellow Former Director General Council of Scientific &
Industrial Research (CSIR),India.
Prof. Brahmachari is a distinguished scientist, academician of India. He served as the Director General of CSIR (2007-12). He is a pioneer of genome analysis using computational tools. He has been an institution builder and has led the transformation of CSIR – Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT) to an internationally recognized institute of functional genomics and system biology research – the CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative biology (IGIB) at New Delhi.