Suresh Subramani
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Dr. Suresh Subramani is the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California San Diego. A highly distinguished cell and molecular biologist, Dr. Subramani has been a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1981.
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
. At UCSD, he served as the last Chair of the Department of Biology (1999-2000) prior to its reorganization as a Division, and was the Interim Associate Dean for the Division of Biology (2000-2001). He served as the Interim Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences between 2006-2007. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the recipient of an NIH MERIT Award. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Section of Molecular Biology at UCSD and the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
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Academic History
Suresh Subramani received his Ph.D. in BiochemistryBiochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
from UC Berkeley, working with Dr. Howard Schachman
Howard Schachman
Howard K. Schachman is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.Schachman received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948. He has been on the faculty of UC Berkeley ever since. He signed but protested the loyalty oath...
. He was a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow with Dr. Paul Berg
Paul Berg
Paul Berg is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids...
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. He was the recipient of a Searle Scholar Award, an NCI Research Career Development Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
. At UCSD, he served as the last Chair of the Department of Biology (1999-2000) prior to its reorganization as a Division, and was the Interim Associate Dean for the Division of Biology (2000-2001). He served as the Interim Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences between 2006-2007. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the recipient of an NIH MERIT Award. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Section of Molecular Biology at UCSD and the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Publications
Subramani is the author of over 100 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 biologyBiology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
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Education
- Ferguson College, PunePunePune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
, India (B.Sc in Chemistry) - Indian Institute of Technology KanpurIndian Institute of Technology KanpurThe Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a Central deemed University located in Uttar Pradesh, about 15 km north-west of the city of Kanpur in the Kalyanpur suburb....
(M.Sc in Chemistry) - University of California Berkeley (PhD in Biochemistry)