Ram Samudrala, PhD

Ram Samudrala is Professor and Chief of the Division of Bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo researching multiscale modelling of protein and proteome structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution at multiple scales. His work has led to more than 150 publications in journals such as Science, Nature, PLoS Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as freely copiable software and web servers for molecular and systems modelling. Previously, Dr. Samudrala joined the University of Washington faculty in 2001 after completing his postdoctoral work with Michael Levitt (2013 Nobel in Chemistry) at Stanford University. He was named a Searle Scholar in 2002, a top young innovator (TR100) by MIT Technology Review in 2003, presented the University of Washington New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture in 2004, received the NSF CAREER Award in 2005, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Visiting Scientist Award in 2008, and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2010. In 2019, Samudrala was named an University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar and also awarded a NIH NCATS ASPIRE Design Challenge Award, followed by Reduction-to-Practice Awards in 2021 and 2022.