[1][2][3] He is also the founding director and chief scientific advisor of the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India.
The first study, "India's Research Output and Collaboration (2005–2014): A Bibliometric Study," was put together by Thomson Reuters, and the second, "International Comparative Performance of India's Research Base (2009–2014)," was put together independently by Elsevier.
In the field of biology and biochemistry, the 2009 paper "Human Protein Reference Database" was ranked second among the top 10 publications with Indian affiliation, and the 2014 Nature cover article "A draft map of human proteome" was ranked sixth after receiving more than 400 citations in a short period of time.
The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance named him a Margdarshi Fellow, and he established a Center for Molecular Medicine at NIMHANS in Bangalore as a result.
The United States Department of Defense also bestowed upon him the Era of Hope Scholar Award.