R. Sankararamakrishnan

R. Sankararamakrishnan, who completed his early college education at the Madurai Kamaraj University in 1986, did his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science and after obtaining a PhD in 1992, he moved to the UK where he did his post-doctoral research in computational biology at the University of Oxford.

[1] He had another stint of post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and started his career in 1996 as an instructor (later assistant professor of research) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

[2] Subsequently, he founded the Bioinformatics and Biomolecular Simulation Laboratory at IITK where he hosts several research scholars.

[3] He also serves as a resource person for the Centre for Mathematical Biology of the Department of Science and Technology.

[4] Sankaramakrishnan's research is focused on mechanism of membrane protein function using computational approaches.