Ms Chandana Chakrabarti , presently Director, Sukriti, a consultancy organisation, was for a decade with the e for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad , an internationally renowned basic research laboratory of the CSIR. She played a crucial role in the building of CCMB along with its founder Dr PM Bhargava. With over a 100 major articles published in well-known magazines, newspapers and books published in India and abroad, she wrote a weekly column for the Deccan Chronicle, Andhra Pradesh's largest circulating daily.