Jury picks BioSpectrum 2009 awardees

The Jury for BioSpectrum Awards 2009 met on October 23, 2009 at Dr Samir Brahmachari’s office at CSIR headquarters in New Delhi. In keeping with the BioSpectrum tradition, BioSpectrum Person of the Year 2008 chaired the publication’s 2009 Awards Jury. In the one-and-a-half hour meeting that followed the jury deliberated on tough decisions.

The Jury: Dr Rajiv Bhat, Prof & Dean, School of Biotechnology JNU; Narayanan Suresh, group editor, BioSpectrum; KV Venugopalan, president, Waters India; Dr Jasmin Patel, managing director, Fidelity International; Dr Samir Brahmachari, DG-CSIR; Dr BV Ravikumar, CEO, XCyton Diagnostics; E Abraham Mathew, chief editor, BioSpectrum.