Dr Anurag Agrawal is Director of the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. After undergraduate medical studies at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (1994), he trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (2003), followed by a PhD in Physiology from Delhi University. After serving as an Assistant Professor at Baylor, He joined IGIB in 2007, taking over as Director in 2017. His interests are in smart deployment of emerging technologies towards healthcare and he is co-chair of the Lancet and Financial Times global commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world. He received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize in Medical Sciences in 2014, National Bioscience Award in 2015, and was elected to fellowships of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2018. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance for Clinical and Public Health research and on advisory groups of the World Health Organisation.