Following is a partial list of the SAC-PM (Scientific Advisory Council to the PM) which consists of 10 members. Chair: Dr C N R Rao cnrrao@jncasr.ac.in http://www.biospectrumindia.com/content/bioPeople/10502111.asp http://www.jncasr.ac.in/cnrrao/ http://www.jncasr.ac.in/cnrrao/cnr_intl.htm Ashok Jhunjhunwala ashok@tenet.res.in http://www.tenet.res.in/Aboutus/People/Faculty/jhun/ http://www.tenet.res.in/Aboutus/People/Faculty/jhun/biodata/committee.html N. K. Ganguli gangulynk@icmr.org.in http://icmr.nic.in/dgp/index.htm http://icmr.nic.in/dgp/member.htm Dr. Syed Hasnain director@cdfd.org.in http://www.transgenebiotek.com/inside/sab.html Director-In-Charge, Center for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad. Dr K VijayRaghavan vijay@ncbs.res.in http://www.biospectrumindia.com/content/bioPeople/10502111.asp Director of the Bangalore-based National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Dr Swati A Piramal spiramal@nicholaspiramal.co.in http://www.biospectrumindia.com/content/bioPeople/10502111.asp Director, Strategic Alliances & Communications of Nicholas Piramal India Limited, and Prof P Balram diroff@admin.iisc.ernet.in http://www.biospectrumindia.com/content/bioPeople/10502111.asp Chairman of the division of Biological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc Professor S.G. Dhande, sgd@iitk.ac.in Director IIT Kanpur http://www.iitk.ac.in/drpg/drpgnewslet.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UGC Chairman (not a SAC PM member) Dr. Arun Nigavekar narun@ugc.ac.in http://www.ugc.ac.in/orgn/telbrowse.php?div=Chairman%20Office