Rajesh Gokhale gets addl charge of Director-General CSIR

New Delhi: Secretary of Department of Biotechnology Rajesh S Gokhale on Friday was given additional charge of the post of Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-cum-Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Gokhale will take up the new responsibility from April 30 to the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders.

Born in 1967, Gokhale is an Indian chemical biologist. He obtained his PhD from IISc and Postdoctoral studies from Stanford University, USA. After he moved back to India, Gokhale joined the National Institute of Immunology (NII), Delhi as faculty. From 2009 to 2016, he was Director of the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi.

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