Girish Sahni
Indian researcher
Girish Sahni (2 March 1956 – 19 August 2024) was an Indian biotechnologist and science administrator. He served as the Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India, from 2015 to 2018. Prior to this, he was Director of the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, from 2005 to 2015. In 2014, he received the Vigyan Ratna Award, India's highest national recognition for scientists, awarded under the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) for lifetime achievements and profound contributions to any field of science and technology by the Government of India
Early life and education
Girish Sahni was born on 2 March 1956 in India. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He later pursued post-doctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Rockefeller University, New York, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
Career
Sahni joined the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) in 1991. Over the years, he rose through the ranks and became Director of the institute in 2005.
In 2015, Sahni was appointed Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), one of the largest publicly funded research and development organizations in the world. Concurrently, he served as Secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).
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