Chemical biologist who leads India's Department of Biotechnology as its Secretary, having previously directed the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi.
Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale leads the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) as Secretary to the Government of India; DBT, part of the Ministry of Science and Technology, funds biotechnology research and institutions across India. He is a chemical biologist whose work has focused on the metabolic diversity of pathogens, including the discovery of a family of long chain fatty acyl AMP ligases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He was Director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology from 2009 to 2016, is a professor of biology at IISER Pune, and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2006. The DBT website was unreachable when checked, so this record relies on Wikipedia.
| Title | Journal | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Enzymic activation and transfer of fatty acids as acyl-adenylates in mycobacteria | Nature | 2004 |
| NRPS-PKS: a knowledge-based resource for analysis of NRPS/PKS megasynthases | Nucleic Acids Res | 2004 |
| Multifaceted pathways protect human skin from UV radiation | Nat Chem Biol | 2014 |
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