Dr Geetha Vani Rayasam, Outstanding Scientist, CSIR, has recently assumed the charge as head of CSIR-HRDG (CSIR-Human Resource Development Group), New Delhi. Dr Geetha Vani Rayasam, has vast experience in academia, industry, Government of India and abroad. She is a PhD in Biochemistry from IISc Bengaluru and has post-doctoral experience in IGBMC, France and at the NIH, USA.

She has worked in Industries such as Ranbaxy (Daiichi-Sankyo) and SMART ANALYST in areas of new drug discovery and development. She has been at CSIR for more than a decade in a variety of roles ranging from the Open Source Drug Discovery Programme to Heading Business Development and Industry Alliance at CSIR-IGIB. More recently she was heading the Science Communication and Dissemination Directorate (SCDD) at CSIR HQ.