Co-Founder and Chair-Ignite (Co-Founder and former CEO, C-CAMP, Bengaluru), Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, and 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.