Satish Kumar Raina

Biography

Satish Kumar Raina received BSc from J&K University, MSc from Agra University and PhD (1977) from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi where he worked on generating haploid plants from pollen grains of Indica Rice. He continued to work at IARI till 2004, initially at the Genetics Division and subsequently (1985) at the Biotechnology Centre (now National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, NRCPB). He was a Professor at NRCPB when he sought voluntary retirement (2004) to take up an assignment with Nath Group at Aurangabad for bringing in an Alternative Bt Cotton Technology to India. He is presently Director of Global Transgenes Ltd, a Nath Group Company, pursuing different programs on 'genetic engineering technologies'. During his employment at IARI and NRCPB, he worked at several institutions abroad, especially the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines (1987-1989), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland (1995) and John Innes Centre, UK (1996).

Research Interest

Agricultural Biotechnology