# Rajesh S. Gokhale

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## TL;DR

Chemical biologist who leads India's Department of Biotechnology as its Secretary, having previously directed the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi.

## Summary

Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale leads the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) as Secretary to the Government of India; DBT, part of the Ministry of Science and Technology, funds biotechnology research and institutions across India. He is a chemical biologist whose work has focused on the metabolic diversity of pathogens, including the discovery of a family of long chain fatty acyl AMP ligases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He was Director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology from 2009 to 2016, is a professor of biology at IISER Pune, and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2006. The DBT website was unreachable when checked, so this record relies on Wikipedia.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; government; research-institute
- Role: Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
- Specialisms: Chemical biology; Microbial metabolism; Science administration

## Sources

- Source: Wikipedia article on Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajesh_Sudhir_Gokhale
- Source: Wikipedia article on the Department of Biotechnology (Secretary field): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Biotechnology

## Connected records

- institutions: [Department of Biotechnology, Government of India](https://onco.cc/institutions/dbt-india/)

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