P. N. Rangarajan

Known for his research on eukaryotic gene expression, Rangarajan is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

[2] After serving Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a research associate for a year, he returned to India to join IISc at the department of biochemistry in 1993 where he is a professor.

[3] He leads a team of scientists engaged in the studies of Pichia pastoris, a methylotrophic yeast species, with regard to its transcription factors and the regulation of carbon metabolism.

[12] Rangarajan's work has attracted research by other scientists[13] and he has delivered invited speeches or keynote addresses including the lecture on Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes: Diversity in general Transcription factors at IIT Madras[14] and the address on Transcriptional interference in the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram in October 2012.

[15] He was the co-convenor of the lecture workshop on Recent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011[16] and has been involved in conducting open courses on Eukaryotic Gene Expression.