Full-time Posted June 17, 2026
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Principal Scientist – I - Cell and Molecular Biology and Trait Engineering

ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic and motivated Global Professionals for the position of Principal Scientist - I and Group Leader under the Trait Discovery and Delivery Theme within the Global Research Program - Accelerated Crop Improvement. The position is based in the Headquarters in Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

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