Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue University.
Rams is known as an outstanding Scientist, Science Administrator, Institution Builder, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Advisor, Teacher, and Enabler. He is a structural biologist with expertise in protein crystallography and electron cryo-microscopy, who earned his PhD in molecular biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. After graduation, he moved to Uppsala, Sweden, for a fellowship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Ramaswamy stayed at SLU for eight years, serving as a researcher and docent before moving to Iowa City for a faculty position at the University of Iowa. While working as assistant dean and director of core research facilities in Iowa, Ramaswamy helped create a unique structural biology program, an accomplishment he later duplicated at inStem in India. Ramaswamy was the founding Dean at inStem also co-founded and served as the first CEO of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, Bangalore, a life sciences innovation hub for academia, industry and start-up companies.