SCIENTIST AND FOUNDER DIRECTOR CSIR- INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS & INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY, CHIEF MENTOR OF OPEN SOURCE DRUG DISCOVERY
He started his academic career as PhD scholar at the Molecular Biophysics Unit in Indian Institute of Science, and in 1981 became a Lecturer. In 1986 he became an assistant professor and Associate Professor in 1992. In 1997 he became a professor and simultaneously served as postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. On 11 August 1997 he was appointed as the Director of CSIR-Center for Biochemical Technology (CBT). As the Director of CBT he was instrumental in re-establishing it as the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology- an institute where genomics and informatics have been seamlessly integrated. He assumed responsibility as the Director General[2] of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India on 12 November 2006. He has held the membership of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Council (2004 - 2011). He is currently on the advisory board of the X Prize in Genomics and the scientific advisory board of National Center of Biomedical Ontology (NCBO), Stanford University.[citation needed] He has also been serving as the adjunct professor, Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, since 2003 and holds the Joseph Austin McCartney & Ruth McCartney Hauck named Visiting Professorship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, US, since 2012. He also holds honorary lifetime professorship to the University of Delhi. He is also the academy professor of AcSIR (Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research ).
