VijayRaghavan Krishnaswamy
VijayRaghavan (Vijay) Krishnaswamy
Distinguished Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
December 1983, Ph.D (Molecular Biology), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, Thesis submitted to Mumbai University
Experience
| January, 1984 | Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (until December, 1985) |
| January, 1986 | Senior Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.(until December, 1987) |
| January, 1988 | Joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India |
| January, 1998 | Senior Professor and Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India (until December, 2012) |
| January, 2013 | Distinguished Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India (-present) |
| January, 2013 | Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (-present) |
Service
| June, 2005 | Member, Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (until 2013) |
| June, 2009 | Member, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI, Advisory Committee (-present) |
| November, 2011 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
| June, 2012 | Fellow of the Royal Society (-present) |
| April 2014 | Foreign Associate, US. National Academy of Sciences (-present) |
Awards
| September, 1998 | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, India |
| December, 2009 | Infosys Science Prize, India |
