Suresh Subramani
Suresh Subramani is Distinguished Professor and Tata Chancellor鈥檚 Professor in Molecular Biology at UC San Diego. He conducts research on intracellular compartments known as peroxisomes. His contributions to this field have included major discoveries regarding how this compartment is dynamically assembled and destroyed in response to nutritional and stress cues.
He was the founding director of the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society at UC San Diego and at Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (Bangalore, India). A Guggenheim Scholar and fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, Subramani received the Chang-Lin Tien Award in Higher Education from the Asia Pacific Fund. He has been recognized among the most highly cited researchers in molecular biology and genetics by ISI Web of Science (Institute for Scientific Information).
Subramani received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He has served in many leadership roles at UC San Diego, including department chair, interim and associate dean and executive vice chancellor.