Rama Ranganathan is an American bioengineer.
Ranganathan studied bioengineering at the
University of California, Berkeley, and earned a master's degree and doctorate at the
University of California, San Diego.
During his tenure at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, he headed the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Systems Biology,
and was a
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, f ...
from 1997 to 2007.
Ranganathan joined the
University of Chicago faculty in 2017, as founding leader of the Center for Physics of Evolving Systems, a joint project of UChicago's Division of the Biological Sciences and the Institute for Molecular Engineering.
In 2018, Ranganathan was appointed the Joseph Regenstein Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as well as the Institute for Molecular Engineering.
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American bioengineers
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center faculty
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University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
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