Girish Sahni assumes charge as next Director General of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

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August 26, 2015

Dr. Girish Sahni has assumed charge as the next Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR). He had been the Director, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), Chandigarh.

Girish Sahni

Born on 2nd March 1956, Dr Sahni is a PhD from Indian institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
Dr. Sahni has contributed significantly in the area of protein cardiovascular drugs especially ‘clot busters’ and their mode of action in the human body.
Dr Sahni’s team has developed a novel life-saver thrombolytic drug (Clot-specific streptokinase), India’s first bio-therapeutic molecule which is not a Biosimilar.
Recently Dr Sahni’s team developed a fourth-generation ‘Anti-thrombotic’ clot busters – the first of its kind in the world.
Dr. Sahni is internationally recognized for his research contributions.
He has been the author of several papers published in high impact refereed scientific journals and has a number of national and international patents to his credit.
He was conferred with many awards in his career. Some of those are National Biotechnology Product Development Award 2002, CSIR Technology Shield 2001-2002, Ranbaxy Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences 2003, Vigyan Rattan Award 2014, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award 2013, and CSIR Technology Award for Business Development and Technology Marketing 2014.

Tidbits

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) established in 1942, is an autonomous body and India’s largest research and development (R&D) organisation.
CSIR is mainly funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
It operates as an autonomous body registered under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860.