Sivaprakash Ramalingam PhD

Dr. Sivaprakash Ramalingam received his doctorate in Biotechnology from the University of Madras, Chennai, India. After a brief stint at Pharma Company, Orchid Pharma Ltd, Chennai, as a Research Scientist, he pursued his post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of gene-editing pioneer and inventor of zinc finger nucleases Prof. Chandra at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, with a research focus on pluripotent stem cell engineering. During his post-doctoral research, he received MSCRF exploratory grant award from Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund in 2012 and then worked as a Junior Faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He then returned to India with the Ramalingaswami Fellowship Award from the Department of Biotechnology and joined CSIR-IGIB in 2017 as a Senior Scientist.