CURRICULUM VITAE

Name                           :           PROF. SAMIR K. BRAHMACHARI

Date of Birth               :           1st January 1952

Present Position          :           Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, GOI &
                                                Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
                                                Anusandhan Bhawan, 2, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg, New Delhi-110001
                                                INDIA

Phone                          :           91-11-2371 0472, 2371 7053

Fax                              :           91-11-2371 0618

E-mail                          :           dgcsir@csir.res.in; dg@csir.res.in

Academic Record

Degree

Subject

Year

University

Ph.D.

Molecular Biophysics    

1978

Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore

M.Sc.

Pure Chemistry                                     
(Physical Chemistry Specialisation)

1973-74

University of Calcutta

B.Sc.

Chemistry (Hons.)

1971-72

University of Calcutta

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Appointments

Positions Held

Period

Name of Organization

Secretary, DSIR &  Director General, CSIR

November 2007- Present

Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India. & Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Director

11th August 1997-November 2007

Institute of Genomics & Integrative   Biology (CSIR), Delhi

Professor

June 1997 - August 2001

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Associate Professor

April 1992-June1997

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visiting Professor

May-July 1997

Max. Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

Associated Faculty

April 1989-March 1995

Centre for Genetic Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Asst. Professor

April 1986 - March 1992

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Lecturer

April 1981 - March 1986

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Research Associate

December 1979-March 1981

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visiting Scientist

November 1979

Dept of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Jones, Newfoundland, Canada

Post-Doctoral

September 1978-October 1979

French Govt. fellowship Institute, de Rechercheen Biologie Moleculaire CNRS, Univ. of Paris, Paris VII

Adjunct Professor

June 2003-Present

Bioinformatics Centre University of Pune, Pune

Visiting Professor

January 1998-Present

B. R. Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards and Honours

 

Name of Award

Conferring Agency

Year

  •  

National Science Talent  Search Scholarship

NCERT, INDIA)

1968

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Young scientist medal

Indian National Science Academy

1979

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Kani medal

National Cancer Research Centre,Tokyo, Japan

1981

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Cama Memorial Award

Society of Biological Chemists, India

1990

  •  

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Sciences

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India

1990

  •  

C. R. Krishnamurthy Oration Award

Society of Biological Chemists (India)

1998

  •  

FICCI Award 1998-99 in recognition of individual initiative in Life Sciences including agriculture

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

1999

  •  

Millennium Medal

Indian Science Congress

2000

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Ranbaxy Research Award for The Year 2001 in the field of “Medical Sciences – Medical
Research”

Ranbaxy Science Foundation

2002

  •  

Goyal Prize 2001 in the field of Life Sciences.

Kurukshetra University

2003

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B. K. Bachhawat Oration Lecture Award

JNU

2003

  •  

C. R. Krishnamurthy Oration Award

CDRI

2003

  •  

Prof. P.K. Bose Memorial Award

Indian Chemical Society                    

2004

  •  

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for excellence in biomedical research

Indian Council of Medical Research

2005

  •  

H. K. Firodia Awards For Excellence In Science and Technology

H.K. Firodia Memorial Foundation

2007

  •  

Dhirubhai Ambani Oration Award

 

2007

  •  

Padma Bhushan Dr. RA Mashelkar Medal

Asian Paints

2007

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Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award

 

2007

  •  

2005 VASVIK Award for Biological S&T

Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra

2008

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Prof. M.V. Pylee Lifetime Achievement Award

 

2008

  •  

6th Biospectrum person of the year-2008  

Biospectrum

2008

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Distinguished Alumni IISc

IISc Alumni Association                     

2008

  •  

SS Bhatnagar Memorial Award and Gold Medal   

Indian Science Congress

2009

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The Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal (2007)                                                                   

INSA

2009

  •  

2008 Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award for S&T (Biotechnology)                                           

Shri O. P. B.Foundation for S&T

2009

  •  

D.Sc. Degree (honoris causa)

Vidyasagar University

2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Membership/Fellowships to Academies and Scientific Bodies

  •  

Elected member

Guha Research Conference (India)

1986

  •  

Fellowship of the Indian  Academy of Sciences

Indian Academy of Sciences

1991

  •  

Elected member

Human Genome Organization (HUGO)    

1991

  •  

Fellowship of the Indian  National Science Academy

Indian National Science Academy

1995

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Elected Council Member Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Federation of Asian & Oceanic

1995

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Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad

National Academy of Sciences   

2000

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Elected Council Member, HUGO

Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)    

2004

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Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI)  

Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI), RRL, Trivandrum

2005 

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Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering  

Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi

 

2009 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Membership of Professional  Bodies, Organization of Conferences, etc.

  1. Organizing Secretary, International symposium on Biomolecular Structure and Interactions, Dec 1984.
  2. Invited member, “Advisory Committee to Curriculum Development Centre for Postgraduate Education in Biophysics”.India 1987-1988.
  3. General Secretary, Society of Biological Chemists, India, 1987-89, 1993-95.
  4. Executive committee member, Society of Biological Chemists, India, 1987.
  5. Convenor, INDO-SOVIET Workshop on “DNA Protein Interaction & Crosslinking” Bangalore, March   1990.
  6. Member, Task Force on Medical Biotechnology, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India.1990-94.
  7. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Biosciences 1991-97.
  8. Member, Chemical Sciences and Technology Research Committee, CSIR (India) 1993-98.
  9. Convenor, Review meeting on “Trends in DNA Structure-Function and Genome Organization”, Bangalore, Jan 1993.
  10. Member, Task Force on Human Genetics, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India.1994.
  11. Member, National Organizing Committee, XVI IUBMB Congress, New Delhi, September 1994.
  12. Member, National Organizing Committee, Third Asian Conference on Transcription, Bangalore,September 1994.
  13. Member, National Bioethics Committee, Ministry of Science & Technology, Department of   Biotechnology, w.e.f. November 1999- 15 November, 2006.
  14. Member, Animal Ethics Committee, Delhi University South Campus.
  15. Member, Management Council, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.
  16. Member, Research Council, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi.
  17. Member Academic Committee, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.
  18. Member Advisory Committee of the Biotechnology Teaching Programme, Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, Delhi.
  19. Member, Society, Governing Body, and Finance Committee, National Brain Research Centre, New Delhi.
  20. Member, Board of Governors, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Punjab.
  21. Member, Sectional Committee-IX of Indian National Science Academy. - INSA Medal for Young Scientists, New Delhi.
  22. Member, Performance Appraisal Board, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi.
  23. Member, Advisory Committee, CSIR Young Scientists Award on Biological Sciences for the year 2000, New Delhi.
  24. Chairman, Research Advisory Committee, National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal (Haryana).
  25. Member, Research Council, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad,  2001 - 2007
  26. Member, Research Council, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 2004-2007.
  27. Visitor’s nominee, Selection committee for teaching post, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  28. Member, Governing body and Society, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research for a period of three years, 2001-2004.
  29. Member, Recombinant Drug advisory Panel, Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Govt. of India.
  30. Member, Task Force Madhya Pradesh Expert Committee for Life Sciences.
  31. Member, Maharashtra Biotech Commission.
  32. Member, Kelkar high power Committee of CSIR.
  33. Member, Task Force Himachal Pradesh.
  34. Area Coordinator (Life Sciences) Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.
  35. Appointed Chairman of Project Advisory Committee for International Programmes in Life Sciences & Biotechnology (PAC-LSBT), Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, w.e.f. 25th January, 2005.
  36. Chairman, Working Group on Bioinformatics Research and Development, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (DIT), Govt. of India, 7th October 2005- Present.
  37. Member, Medical Biotechnology Development Board, Ministry of S&T, Department of Biotechnology, India w.e.f. 15th July, 2005.
  38. Member, Steering Committee on Technology Financing in India – A National Initiative, Department of Science & Technology, India w.e.f. July 2004.
  39. Member, CSIR Working Group for the formulation of XI th Five Year Plan w.e.f. December, 2005.
  40. Chairman, CSIR Committee for “Optimising the CSIR support staff in various streams in the global context”.
  41. Member, CSIR Change Team for the implementation of recommendation of Kelkar Committee.
  42. Member, Indian Council of medical Research (ICMR) for preparing the XI th Five Year Plan document.
  43. Member, Advisory Committee of Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 2006.
  44. Member, Committees for preparing plan and budget of ‘Biology & Biotechnology’ and ‘Drug, Pharma & Healthcare’ Sectors of CSIR, India
  45. Guest of Honour, Key note address, 5th Hi Tech, Pune Maharashtra 2008, 19th June 2008.
  46. Chairman, Plenary Session at Workshop on China-India-US Science Policy at NIAS, Bangalore, 9th July, 2008.
  47. Chairman, National Organization Committee, Human Genome Meeting 2008, Hyderabad.
  48. Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on Nanoscience, Cochin University of S$T, Cochin, January 3-6, 2009.
  49. Patron: 34th Annual Meeting, of the Environment and Mutagenic Society of India, and International Symposium, Magadh University, Bodhgaya,  17-19 March 2009.
  1. Council Member, Federation of Asian & Oceanic Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1995 till date.
  2. Advisory Board Member, Journal of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics. The official journal of FAOBMB.
  3. Chairman of the FAOBMB Fellowship Committee for the 17th FAOBMB Symposium “Genomics and Health for the 21st Century” held at Thailand, November 2004.
  4. Chairman of the FAOBMB Fellowship Committee for the 18th FAOBMB Symposium “Genomics and Proteomics in Health and Agriculture” held at Lahore, November 2005.
  5. Member, Human Genome Organization 1991.
  6. Elected Member of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Council for the years 2004 to 2007.
  7. Member, Advisory group on “Biotechnology & Human Rights” to H. R. High Commission, Geneva.
  8. Member of India-European Commission S&T Steering Committee responsible for Genomics &  Biotechnology for Health.
  9. Member, Planning Group of the Human Variome Project coordinated by Professor Richard G. H.Cotton AM, Director: Genomic Disorders Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2006.
  10. Appointed an independent Director on the Board of the India Pharma Fund Ltd., an open-ended multi-class investment company incorporated in Mauritius in 2005.
  11. Coordinator of the Indo-EU workshop on “Functional Genomics & Biotechnology for Health”, organized by DST, India at Delhi on 27th and 28th April, 2005.
  12. Coordinator of the “Indo-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Trilateral Workshop on "Functional Genomics,Life Science, GM Food and Agriculture”, organized by DST, India at Delhi on 18th -19th July, 2005.
  13. Coordinator of the “Indo-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Functional Genomics” organized by DST, India at Delhi on 20th-21st October, 2005.
  14. Organized the “2nd CSIR-NSFC Workshop on Genome Informatics” at Delhi from 22nd to 25th February, 2006.
  15. Invited by the Council of Human Genome Organisation to host the Human Genome Meeting in India in 2008 and to Chair the National Organising Committee .
  16. Regional Editor for South Asian Countries for the Journal Genomic Medicine, 2006 onwards.
  17. Advisory Board member for Archon-X prize for genomics, X-Prize foundation, USA.

 

Member of Important Delegation of Govt. of India/ CSIR

  1. Member, Indian delegation to attend 2nd Indo–US Round Table Dialogue meeting in Washington DC, September 2000.
  2. Member,  Indian delegation to Moscow to explore the possibility of bilateral co-operation with Russian Institutes in the area of Biomedical Research, organised by Department of Science &   Technology, 6-12 October, 2002.
  3. Member, Indian delegation to participate in the Indo-South African Workshop on advanced computing, organised by Department of Science & Technology at Pretoria, S. Africa, 28-29  October, 2002.
  4. Member, Indian delegation to London to participate in the `India Day' celebrations on 11th December 2002 organised by the Royal Society, London.
  5. Member, Indian delegation to Brussels to participate in the 1st Meeting of the India-EC S&T Steering Committee during March 3rd to 5th, 2004.
  6. Member, Indian delegation to Russia for participation in the 12th Session of ILTP Joint Council Meeting in St. Petersburg and Joint Committee Meeting of the Russian-Indian Centre for Ayurvedic Research in Moscow from September 30 to October 4, 2004.
  7. Member of the Indian delegation to Israel to attend the Workshop on “Promoting and Facilitating Innovation driven new ventures”, held from 29th May to 3rd June, 2005 at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, organised by TIFAC, DST.
  8. Lead a group of Indian scientists to attend the Taiwan-India Joint Symposium on Functional Genomics on 3rd-4th March, 2006 at Taipei, Taiwan.
  9. Member, Indian delegation to Brussels to participate in the 3rd Meeting of the India-EC S&T Steering Committee during November 16th-17th, 2006.

Research Achievements and Present Research Interest

 

Patents

S. No.

Title

Inventors

Country
(Publicatoin Date)

Filing Date

Grant Date

Patent No.

    1.

Computational method for identifying adhesin and adhesin- like proteins of therapeutic potential

Sachdeva Gaurav, Kumar Kaushal, Preti Jain, Brahmachari SK, Ramachandran S

India

29-May-06

 

 

US

20-Jul-04

 

 

WO

07-Feb-05

 

 

    2.

A computer based method for identifying conserved invariant peptide motifs

Brahmachari SK, Dash D

BR
(14-Jan-03)

30-Sep-02

 

 

CA
(11-Oct-01)

07-Dec-01

 

 

CN

26-Nov-02

20-Jul-05

218305

CZ
(15-May-02)

04-Jan-02

 

 

EP
(02-Jan-03)

31-Aug-00

12-Jan-05

1268512

EP

26-Feb-02

 

 

HU
(28-May-03)

30-Sep-02

 

 

India

16-Sep-02

 

 

IS

01-Jan-02

 

 

JP
(30-Sep-03)

24-Jan-02

 

 

KO

14-Jan-02

 

 

RU

12-Jan-02

27-Mar-05

2249044

US

30-Mar-00

 

 

WO
(17-Feb-05)

31-Aug-00

 

 

    3.

A method for predicting an individual's bronchodilatory response to a beta agonist

Somesh Sharma, Kukreti R, Pallav Bhatnagar, Rao CB, Ghosh B, Brahmachari SK, Randeep Guleria

India

10-Dec-04

 

 

US

28-Apr-04

 

 

WO

29-Apr-04

 

 

    4.

Targets for human micrornas in avian influenza virus (H5N1) genome

Samir Kumar Brahmachari, Manoj Hariharan, Vinod Scaria, Beena Pillai

India

31-Mar-06

 

 

    5.

A novel computer based method for identification of candidate proteins useful as anti-infectives

Brahmachari SK, Ramachandran S, Rao CB

US

30-Mar-01

 

 

    6.

Novel allelic variant of cyp2c19 associated with drug metabolism

Brahmachari SK, Ravina Fernandes, Sharma Nitin, Suparna Martis, Kukreti R, Mukerji M,

India

15-Jul-04

 

 

US

15-Jul-05

 

 

WO

15-Jul-05

 

 

    7.

Method of detection of allelic variants of SCA2 gene

Brahmachari SK, Choudhry Shweta, Mukerji Mitali, Jain Satish

US
(23-Sep-03)

08-Nov-00

23-Sep-03

6623927

    8.

Targets for human micrornas in HIV-1 genome and a method thereof.

Brahmachari SK, Pillai B, Manoj Hariharan

India

10-Oct-05

 

 

    9.

Novel primers for screening schizophrenia and a method thereof

Brahmachari SK, Ranjana, Chitra, Salim Q, Jain S

AU

27-Mar-03

 

 

BR

31-Mar-03

 

 

CA

27-Mar-03

 

 

EP

31-Mar-03

 

 

IL

27-Mar-03

 

 

India

06-Aug-04

 

 

JP

28-Mar-03

 

 

US

21-Mar-02

20-Jul-04

6764824

WO

25-Mar-02

 

 

    10.

A computer based method for predicting protein coding dna sequences useful as drug targets

Brahmachari SK, Dash D, Ramakant Sharma, Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari

India

30-Jun-05

 

 

US
(23-Jun-05)

05-Dec-03

 

 


Software Copyrights Filed

  1. Software programme titled “PEPLIB- programme for finding common peptides in different genomes”.
    Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K. Brahmachari. (CR-29/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
  2. Software programme titled “PL-HostFA”. (CR-27/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
    Authors: Debasis Dash, Mamta Khandelwal, S.K.Brahmachari.
  3. Software programmed titled “PAT FIND”. (CR-28/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
    Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K.Brahmachari.
  4. Software programmed title “PEPLIMP- programme to stitch common peptides found in different genomes”.
    Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K.Brahmachari (CR-30/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
  5. Software programme titled “PEPEXTRACT- programme to find proteins that contain specific pattern of amino-acids. Filed on 19/12/2001 (CR-31/2001).
    Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K.Brahmachari.
  6. Soft ware programme termed PEPSTICH filed on 31.1.2001. (CR 32 / 2001)
    Authors: Debasis Dash and S.K. Brahamachari.
  7. Software programme titled “Process.cgi- programme for finding common peptides in different genomes”.
    Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K. Brahmachari. (CR-29/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
  8. “Interconnections of pathways cnontaining candidate genes for schizophrenia” CR 42/2002.
    Authors: C.B. Rao and S.K. Brahmachari.
  9. “EXPOLDB databse” CR 43/2002,
    Authors: S. Ramachandran, Vineet Grover and SK Brahmachari
  10. “Comprehensive peptide signatures database” (COPS DB).
    Authors: Debasis Dash, Tulika Prakash and SK Brahmachari.
  11. "Genedecipher" CR 28/2003 filed on 31-10-2003.
    Authors: SK Brahmachari
  12. STAMPSZ -Signal Transduction and metabolic pathway specific for schizophrenia.
    Authors: Sambit Gaan, Simone Gupta, CB Rao and SK Brahmachari
  13. "The immortal Coils" (50 years of Collagen Triple Helix: A Celebration of Science) CR 28/2004
    Authors: SK Brahmachari
  14. “High Throughput – sequence, screening and SNP (HT-SSS), Joint copyright application (CSIR and Silicogene Informatics) CR-31/2005.
    Authors: Mitali Mukerji Debasis Dash, Dipayan Dasgupta, Siddharth Bisht, S. K. Brahmachari.