Dr. Ramani Ramchandran completed his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Augusta University. He undertook a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School from 1997 to 2002. In 2002, upon receipt of National Cancer Institute Scholar Award, he moved to National Institutes of Health (NIH) to start his first independent lab. He was recruited to the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in 2007 as an Associate Professor where he has risen through the academic ranks to the position of professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Research Institute. He has had numerous leadership positions at MCW including the current position of the Director of the Medical Student Summer Research Program. He has published over 100 articles and is considered a leading expert on vascular biology. His research has been continuously funded from NIH since 2002. In 2023, Professor Ramchandran founded CIAN Inc., a company dedicated to developing ciliary proteins as a biomarker for altered blood flow.