Veerasamy "Ravi" Ravichandran, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology. He manages the Biomedical Informatics Research Network initiative and some Biomedical Technology Research Center (BTRC) grants in the areas of informatics and computational biology. Previously, Ravichandran was a scientific fellow in the FDA Laboratory of Molecular Virology. Earlier in his career, he was a staff scientist at NINDS, a research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and an associate research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania. Ravichandran conducted postdoctoral research as an IRTA fellow in the NCI Laboratory of Pathology and Experimental Immunology Branch. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, master’s degrees in biochemistry and philosophy/clinical biochemistry, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Madras in India. Ravichandran also earned a master’s degree in computer science and bioinformatics from John Hopkins University.
To contact Veerasamy “Ravi” Ravichandran, send e-mail to ravichanr@nigms.nih.gov or call 301-451-9822.