Ram Kannan BTech, PhD

Ram obtained his bachelors in Biotechnology from PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore. He completed his doctoral training with Dr. Peter Baumann at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Stowers Institute For Medical Research in Kansas City where he demonstrated a novel function for the spliceosome in generating 3’ ends of telomerase RNA in fission yeast and filamentous fungi. Currently, Ram is funded by the MSKCC-TROT fellowship and is employing genome-editing technology to generate new models for lung and pancreatic cancer.