Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan

Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan is an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is from Kannur, Kerala. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in the biological science category. He was awarded the prize for discovering SCR7, a chemical compound that blocks DNA repair in cancer cells. He received his BSc in zoology from Payyannur College, MSc in zoology from SN College, Kannur, and PhD in biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University, India in 1999. He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California from 1999 to 2006. His main research interests are cancer genetics, genomic instability, DNA repair, and recombination.