Manjunath Ramarao's Biography

Manjunath Ramarao, Group Director and Head, Disease Sciences and Technology, Bristol-Myers Squibb India Pvt Ltd

Dr Manjunath leads a large team of scientists involved in drug discovery research efforts spanning diverse areas including in vitro biology, mechanistic biochemistry, genomics, protein sciences, biophysics, crystallography, electrophysiology, computational biology, compound management and automation. He joined BMS in 2009 after an industrious career at Wyeth, Cambridge, MA, USA, which spanned over eight years where he initiated and successfully led several drug discovery programs. Prior to that he worked as an Instructor in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. He holds Ph.D. and MS in Physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and MSc (Biochemistry) and B.Sc. from Bangalore University, India.