Professor Chandrabhas Narayana is currently Director of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB).
Prof. Narayana a Bangalorean by birth, born to parents from Kerala did his PhD from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore after completion of his Bachelor and master’s in science education from Regional Institute of Education, Mysore (affiliated to Mysore University).
He then went to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York for his Post Doctoral Research. Before joining as the Director at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), he was the Dean (Research and Development), the Chairman (Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit) and the Dean (Fellowships and Extension Programmes) at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).
Prof. Narayana specializes in Raman Spectroscopy. Though a trained condensed matter physicist, Prof. Narayana developed a keen interest in Biology within a few years at JNCASR. His group is a pioneer in the use of Raman spectroscopy in the areas of a) drug-protein interaction, for drug screening applications, b) protein structure function studies and c) diagnostic applications. Many of his works in these areas are trendsetters in inter-disciplinary research.
In the process, he holds three international patents, a few of these are on the verge of commercialization. He was till recently the coordinator for the two major Synchrotron projects for India, namely, The Indian beamline at the Photon Factory, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan and the PETRA III, Hamburg, Germany.
He is a Fellow of National Academy of Science, India, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences. He has published over 180 research papers in International Journals and 4 Chapters in Books and has an h-index of 39.
