Ramaswamy S

Ramaswamy S is an Indian-American structural biologist of Indian origin. He is currently professor of biological sciences, professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue University. He was a senior professor at Institute of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine (inStem) from 2009 to 2019. Ramaswamy S also abbreviated as "Rams" by his students and colleagues, held the founding dean's position at inStem from May 2009. He was also the founding CEO of Center for Cellular and molecular platforms (C-CAMP), Bangalore-Biocluster from May 2009 to May 2016. His major role at National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) was to bridge the gap between research and application. He works in close coordination with Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and other ministries of the Government of India.

Rams obtained his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics under the guidance of Prof. M. R. N. Murthy from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1992 and became a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Hans Eklund at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). After being a post-doc from 1992 to 1994, he became a researcher at SLU, later a docent heading a research group until 1999. His primary area of expertise involves protein crystallography. Provided by Wikipedia