Expert Committee – NPDF & ECRA Life Sciences Core Members 1 Prof. G. Mohanadasan Nair Chairman Kerala Biotechnology Comission Trivandrum 2 Dr. Sneh Lata Pareek International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Aruna Asaf Ali Marg New Delhi 3 Dr. P. V. Mohanan Toxicology Division Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Trivandrum 5 Dr. Ajay Parida Institute of Life Sciences Bhubaneshwar 6 Prof W Vishwanath Singh Manipur University Manipal 7 Dr. Pradeep Kumar Burma Department of Genetics University of Delhi South Campus New Delhi 8 Prof. Shyam S. Sharma Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Mohali 9 Prof. Akhilesh S. Raghubanshi Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 10 Dr. Amit Dutt Tata Memorial Centre Sector 22 Kharghar Navi Mumbai Co-opted Members 1 Prof.Sujoy K. Das Gupta Dept. of Microbiology Bose Institute Kolkata 2 Prof. Sukhbir Kaur Deptt. of Zoology Panjab University Chandigarh 3 Prof. Sanjeev Galande Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Dr. Homi Bhabha Road Pune 4 Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee Department of Biochemistry University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 5 Prof. Sandhya Kiran Garge Department of Botany The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Vadodara 6 Dr Rajeev Kumar Varshney Centre of Excellence in Genomics International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Hyderabad 7 Dr. Sanjeev Das Molecular Oncology Laboratory National Institute of Immunology Aruna Asaf Ali MargNew Delhi 8 Dr Rishikesh Narayanan Molecular Biophysics Unit Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru 9 Dr. Madhulika Dixit Department of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology- Madras Chennai 10 Dr. Jayandharan G. Rao Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur 11 Dr. Debasmita Pankaj Alone School of Biological sciences National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar 12 Dr. Ravi Manjithaya Molecular Biology & Genetics Unit Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research Bengaluru 13 Dr. Manoj Kumar Barthwal CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute Jankipuram Extension Lucknow 14 Dr. Shiru Sharma School of Biomedical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology -BHU Varanasi 15 Prof. Goutam Chandra The University of Burdwan West Bengal 16 Dr. Harendra Kumar ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute Bareilly 17 Dr. S. Selvaraju ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology Hosur main Road Adugodi Bengaluru 18 Dr. Amit Sharma International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Aruna Asaf Ali Marg New Delhi 19 Dr. Rohini Muthuswami School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 20 Dr. Santa Ram Joshi Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics North Eastern Hill University Shillong Dr. Srikrishna Subramanian 21 CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology Chandigarh 22 Prof. Saroj S. Ghaskadbi Dept. of Zoology University of Pune Pune 23 Prof. H. Prathap Kumar Shetty Department of Food Science and Technology Pondicherry University Puducherry 24 Dr. K. Pakshirajan Department of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati Guwahati 25 Dr. Mini Raman Biology and Planetary Sciences Group Space Application Centre-ISRO Ahmedabad .