National Chair and Head, Drug Discovery Research Centre

Dr Kanury Rao is National Chair and Head at the Drug Discovery Research Centre (DDRC), a niche centre of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute and an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. DDRC is a multi-disciplinary centre that aims to apply systems-level approaches and perspectives for both understanding disease-specific perturbations, and development of new therapeutic strategies. As Head of the Centre, Kanury is responsible for defining its overall charter, while shaping and driving the scientific programs.