About the Speaker

Prof. Varshney received his PhD from University of Calgary, Canada and did his Post-Doctoral research at the laboratory of Johan Hans van de Sande at the university and, later, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently the Chairman of the division of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. His researches are known to have assisted in a wider understanding of the biology of mycobacterium, more specifically the interaction between ribosome recycling factor and elongation factor G as well as the uracil excision repair pathway. He is one of the first recipients of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development award. He has also been awarded with prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2001, the G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Sciences & Technology in 2014, the P. S. Sarma Memorial Award of the Society of Biological Chemists (India) in 2001. A life member of the SBC, he received the Life Sciences Research Award of Novo Nordisk Education Foundation in 2002 and the year 2008 brought him the elected fellowship of the Indian National Science Academy and the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology of India.