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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1967|1|16}}<br />
| birth_place = India<br />
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| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Chemical biology]] }} <br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on the metabolic diversity of pathogens<br />
| awards = {{ublist|2006&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2009&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale''' (born 1967) is an Indian chemical biologist who was the director of [[Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology]]. Gokhale is known for his studies on the metabolic diversity of pathogens.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=463 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> He is credited with the discovery of a family of Long-chain Fatty acyl-AMP ligases (FAAL) and his studies assisted in the elucidation of ''biochemical [[Crosstalk (biology)|crosstalk]]'' between fatty acid synthases and polyketide synthases in [[Mycobacterium tuberculosis]].<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34}}</ref> He holds US and Indian patents for his invention of ''Method to Modulate Pigmentation Process in the Melanocytes of Skin''.<ref name="Wipo Publishes Patent">{{cite web | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2827330911.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228232127/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2827330911.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=28 December 2017 | title=Wipo Publishes Patent | publisher=High Beam | date=29 November 2012 | access-date=23 October 2016}}</ref> An alumnus of the [[Indian Institute of Science]],<ref name="IISc Alumnus">{{cite web | url=http://alumni.iisc.ernet.in/profile/view/rajesh-sudhir-gokhale | title=IISc Alumnus | publisher=IISc Alumni Association | date=2016 | access-date=23 October 2016}}</ref> he is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] (2007)<ref name="Fellow profile - RS Gokhale">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Gokhale,_Mr_Rajesh_Sudhir | title=Fellow profile - RS Gokhale | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (2014).<ref name="Indian fellow - RS Gokhale">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P14-1645 | title=Indian fellow - RS Gokhale | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=11 October 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2006, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> He received the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]] of the [[Department of Biotechnology]] in 2009.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite web | url=http://google.com/patents/US20140348788?cl=ar | title=Method to modulate pigmentation process in the melanocytes of skin | publisher=Council Of Scientific & Industrial Research | work=Patent | date=November 2012 | access-date=23 October 2016 |author1=Rajesh Sudhir GOKHALE |author2=Vivek Tirunelveli NATARAJAN |author3=Parul GANJU }}<br />
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