Dr. Suresh Subramani is the Global Director of the Tata Institute for Genetics & Society, former Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (2010 - 2016), and a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, San Diego. A distinguished cell and molecular biologist, Dr. Subramani has been a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1982.
Academic history Suresh Subramani received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley, working with Dr. Howard Schachman. He was a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow with Dr. Paul Berg at Stanford University. He was the recipient of a Searle Scholar Award, an NCI Research Career Development Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.Suresh Subramani Searle Scholar Profile: http://www.searlescholars.net/person/444 He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the recipient of an NIH MERIT Award.
His recent service to UCSD includes his role as the Executive Vice Chancellor (2010–16), Associate Vice Chancellor (2009–10), Interim Dean (2006–07) and Chair (1999-2000) of the UCSD Division of Biology. He is currently a Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), the Global Director of the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS at UCSD and at inStem in Bangalore, India) and holds the Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Molecular Biology at UC San Diego.
Publications
Subramani is an author or co-author of over 200 research articles in international journals, and is cited by the ISI Highly Cited database as one of the preeminent and most commonly cited researchers in the field of Molecular Biology and Genetics.ISI Highly Cited 2000 - 2008 Database: http://highlycited.com/categories/MolecularBiologyampGenetics.html
Education
Fergusson College, Pune, India (B.Sc. in chemistry) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (M.Sc. in chemistry) University of California Berkeley (PhD in biochemistry)
References
External links Tata Institute for Genetics & Society UCSD Senior Leadership Team UCSD Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor Subramani Biography from the UCSD Division of Biological Sciences The Subramani Lab at UCSD