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Rama Ranganathan

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Rama Ranganathan
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
FieldsBioengineering
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago

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.[1] During his tenure at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, he headed the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Systems Biology,[1] and was a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator from 1997 to 2007.[2] 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.[1] 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.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Eminent bioengineering scholar to lead UChicago's Center for Physics of Evolving Systems". University of Chicago. 7 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Rama Ranganathan, MD, PhD". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships". University of Chicago. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2021.