Prof. K. VijayRaghavan
Emeritus Professor and Former Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences
K. VijayRaghavan is a distinguished professor and former director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences and has formerly served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to The Government of India. His research interests are in the fields of developmental biology, genetics, and neurogenetics. His group studies the principles and mechanisms that control the nervous system and muscles during development, and how these neuromuscular systems direct specific locomotor behaviors. VijayRaghavan is a Fellow of the Indian Science Academies, the Royal Society. He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society. Prof. VijayRaghavan and was conferred the Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.