SRIRAM CHANDRASEKARAN
Pronunciation: Shree - Ram (rhymes with palm) CHAN-drah (rhymes with Sandra) -say-car-un
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008 – 2013
Major: Biophysics and Computational Biology
Bachelor of Technology, Anna University, Guindy, Chennai, India, 2004 - 2008
Major: Biotechnology
Appointments
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan
The Michigan Institute for Data Science, University of Michigan
Center for Systems Biology, University of Michigan
POSITIONS
2023 – Associate Professor with Tenure, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2017 – 2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2013 – 2016 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge
2015 – 2016 Research Associate, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston
2013 – 2016 Visiting Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge
2011 – 2013 Visiting Researcher, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
2009 – 2011 Research Assistant, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana
HONORS AND AWARDS
2022 US National Academy of Science, Medicine and Engineering (NAS, NAM, NAE) workshop on Biotechnology and Physiology, Invited speaker/panelist
2022 US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Emerging Leaders Forum, Invited speaker/panelist
2021 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences Award
2021 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) (About the award: Wiki)
2020 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, NIH
2018 COBRA Distinguished Young Investigator Award, International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES)
2013 Elected as Junior Fellow to the Harvard Society of Fellows (About the Fellowship: Wiki, Time Magazine, Crimson)
2012 Finalist, Lemelson MIT Illinois Student Award for innovation (Press Release, Award Poster)
2011 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Predoctoral Fellowship (News Article, About the fellowship)
INTRAMURAL AWARDS
2023 Research Scouts Award, Michigan Medicine
2023 Endowment in Basic Sciences (EBS) Teaching Award, University of Michigan
2023 Chad Carr Pediatric Brain Tumor Center P3RC award
2022 Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization (MTRAC) Kickstart Award, State of Michigan & UM
2022 Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) Award, University of Michigan
2022 Endowment in Basic Sciences (EBS) Accelerator Award, University of Michigan
2022 Dean's Engineering Translational Research (ETR) Fund Award, University of Michigan
2022 Rogel Cancer Center Pilot Award, University of Michigan
2019 Forbes Cancer Institute Investigator, University of Michigan (co-I)
2018 Research Stimulus Award, Office of Vice-Provost for Research, University of Michigan
2018 MICHR Promoting Progress in Statistics Award, University of Michigan
2018 Precision Health Investigator Award, University of Michigan
2014 William Milton Fund Award, Harvard University
2008 Robert Emerson Fellowship, University of Illinois
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Scientific Consultant for Tempus, 2023
NIH NIAID Program Project Awards (P01, U01) Special Review Panels, Ad Hoc Member (3X), 2021-24
NIH Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems Study Section, MABS, Ad Hoc Member, 2021-22
UK MRC Artificial Intelligence for Better Biomedical Health, Review Panel Member, 2021
NIH NIAID COVID-19 Emergency Awards Review Panel, Ad Hoc Member, 2020
Scientific Consultant for Axcella Health, 2020-2022
Associate editor, BMC Systems Biology, 2017-2020
Associate editor, Plos Computational Biology, 2022-
Guest editor, Plos Computational Biology, 2019-2022
Reviewer for Nature Communications (frequent), PNAS (frequent), PloS Computational Biology (frequent), Science Advances, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, Cell Systems, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PloS Genetics, Nucleic Acid Research, Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, G3, Molecular Biosystems, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Reports. View peer review profile at Publons
Reviewer, Regeneron Science Talent Search, 2016 - 2021
Consultant, Manus Biosynthesis, 2015
President, Illinois Biophysics Society, 2010-2012
Member, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2010-