Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (born 1967) is a Professor of Biology at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune on lien.

Currently, serving as Secretary for Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Government of India from October 2021 onwards.

[1] He is credited with the discovery of a family of Long-chain Fatty acyl-AMP ligases (FAAL) and his studies assisted in the elucidation of biochemical crosstalk between fatty acid synthases and polyketide synthases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

[2] He holds US and Indian patents for his invention of Method to Modulate Pigmentation Process in the Melanocytes of Skin.

[7] He received the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology in 2009.