Vijay Ramani PhD

Vijay Ramani, PhD, is an Assistant Investigator at the Gladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, and an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ramani’s curiosity-driven research group develops novel technologies to understand the molecular underpinnings of mammalian transcriptional regulation. Work in the Ramani Lab spans multiple areas of bioscience, including molecular biology, biochemistry, and computer science. Recent research has focused on advancing single-molecule DNA sequencing methods to understand how DNA is packaged within mammalian nuclei. This work has yielded mechanistic insight into the cell-, tissue- and human disease-specific dynamics of DNA structure within the context of the nucleoprotein complex called chromatin.

Dr. Ramani received his BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and his PhD in Genome Sciences working in Jay Shendure’s group at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Directly following the completion of his PhD, Dr. Ramani received the prestigious Sandler Faculty Fellowship, allowing him to immediately start an independent research group at UCSF. In addition to the Sandler Faculty Fellowship, Dr. Ramani has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and the Searle Scholars Award, and in 2019 was named to Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in the Healthcare category.