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Prof. K. VijayRaghavan is a developmental biologist who studies how muscles and nerves form, using the fruit fly. He led the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, and served as Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (2018–2022).
Key contributions
- Research on the development of muscles and the nervous system
- Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2012); Padma Shri (2013)