Sathees C. Raghavan is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
[1] He was awarded the prize for his research work on novel DNA repair inhibitors that can target cancer cells.
He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California Los Angeles from 1999 to 2006.
His main research interests are cancer genetics, genomic instability, DNA repair, and recombination.
[2] Raghavan played the important role of convener of the lecture workshop on Recent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011.