Fourth DBT-BIRAC Leadership Dialogue Series Lecture to be delivered by Dr K Kasturirangan, Honorary Distinguished Advisor, ISRO

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The Department of Biotechnology cordially invites you to attend the Fourth DBT-BIRAC Leadership Dialogue Series Lecture titled "Leadership in the Creation of a New Scientific Endeavour: Role of a Visionary and a Missionary" to be delivered by Dr K Kasturirangan, Honorary Distinguished Advisor, ISRO and Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies.

Date: September 16, 2021
Time: 12-1 PM
To Register: https://bit.ly/DBT-BIRAC-LDS4

Leadership in the Creation of a New Scientific Endeavour: Role of a Visionary and a Missionary
Dr K Kasturirangan’s talk will centre around the vision that Prof Vikram Sarabhai bequeathed to the nation to create a new dimension to India’s scientific and technological endeavour as an innovative instrument for National development- Space. In this process, the details of the vision that he crafted and the first step in its implementation that he initiated will be briefly touched upon with the relevant underlying ideas and concepts, which in the overall context came to be designated as Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This was thoughtfully and pragmatically taken forward by his equally eminent successor Prof Satish Dhawan, to whom the space became a mission for this country in fulfilling a variety of developmental aspects calling for a new way of realising the same coming out of originality in thinking and creativity. His role specifically helped define mission scenarios for India’s space program. Towards this, setting up of appropriate institutional mechanisms, one of its kind with respect to concepts anywhere in the world, led to successful demonstration and, in some cases, the realisation of the goals for development.

The vision, mission and extraordinary leadership that these two pioneers gave have led to a sustainable, cost-effective and highly pragmatic national endeavour calling upon the highest levels of science and technological accomplishments and bringing in a large body of stakeholders. The details of this odyssey will be presented in this lecture.

About DBT-BIRAC Leadership Dialogue Series
The DBT-BIRAC Leadership Dialogue Series is a step in establishing a dialogue forum wherein the national and international leaders on the platform provide an insight into the key opportunities, challenges and share their leadership experiences.

This series is an initiative to help the scientific community and students to learn from the vast experiences of the stalwarts in various fields and start a dialogue to take the country to develop into a stable and robust bio-economy.

The first lecture titled was delivered by Bharat Ratna Prof C N R Rao on July 18, 2019 in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the second on by Dr Trevor Mundel, President, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in association with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) on July 29, 2019. The third lecture on was delivered by Dr Eric Green, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health, in association with the National Institute of Immunology on January 8, 2020.

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