Ram I. Mahato is a professor and chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, United States.

He has expertise in molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, polymer chemistry, colloid science, pharmaceutics, and medicine.

It allowed him to take a multidisciplinary approach for successful research and training students and post-doctoral fellows.

His research is focused on the following areas: (i) micelle and nanoparticulate drug delivery, (ii) oligonucleotides, siRNA, miRNA, shRNA and gene delivery (iii) synthesis of novel polymers, lipopeptides, lipopolymers and cationic lipids (iv) construction of plasmid and adenovirus-based gene and shRNA expression systems.

These systems are being tested in various disease areas such as improving islet transplantation to treat type 1 diabetes, cancer (pancreatic, prostate and breast) and liver fibrosis.