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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, a paediatrician and clinical scientist from Chennai, led research on tuberculosis and TB/HIV at the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis. She was Director General of ICMR (2015–2017) and the first Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (2019–2022), and now chairs the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.
Key contributions
- Research on TB and TB/HIV diagnosis and treatment in India
- Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (2015–2017)
- Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (2019–2022)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2026) — with her father M. S. Swaminathan, India's first father–daughter pair of FRSs