Dr. Ram Sasisekharan
Professor
Biological Engineering
Agilent
Japan
Biography
Dr. Sasisekharan has been a professor of biological engineering at MIT since 1996, and has served as the director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology from 2008-2012. The Sasisekharan lab employs multidisciplinary strategies to develop and integrate orthogonal analytical technologies to further research into complex biopharmaceuticals. The lab originated its efforts with GAGs (such as heparin) to develop analytical and enzymatic tools with the pertinent and defined substrate-product profiles required to understand their structure-function relationships. Timely development and characterization of therapeutic mAb to treat infectious diseases and cancer are currently of paramount interest to his lab. Dr. Sasisekharan has been recognized by numerous accolades and awards, and his ideas and concepts have been the founding basis of many biotechnology companies.
Research Interest
Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering and Health Sciences & Technology Massachusetts Institute of technology Cambridge, MA
