Samir K. Brahmachari Biography 
Samir K. Brahmachari is an Indian biophysicist from Kolkata. At present he holds the positions of Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). He is the Founder Director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) and the Chief Mentor of Open Source Drug Discovery. In the year 2012, he received J.C Bose Fellowship Award. He has more than 12 patents, 23 copyrights and over 150 research publications to his credit.
Samir completed degree in chemistry from the University of Calcutta in 1972 and MSc in 1974. He received PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1978. He completed post-doctoral research at Paris Diderot University and began his career as Research Associate at the Molecular Biophysics Unit in Indian Institute of Science. In 1981 became a Lecturer, followed by Assistant Professor in 1986 and Associate Professor in 1992. In 1997, along with his normal assignments he became Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. On 11 August 1997 he was appointed as the Director of CSIR-Center for Biochemical Technology.
He played a significant role in re-establishing it as the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. He became Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2006. 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. He also holds Honorary Lifetime Professorship to the University of Delhi and holds a few more positions too.
Samir’s works are concentrated on structural and computational biology. Elucidating the role of repetitive DNA in genome function in health and disease using a trans-disciplinary approach are his primary research subjects. He along with his team was able to identify human micro RNAs targeting HIV-1 and predicted its implications.
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Updated: February 18, 2014
