Dr. Shankar Subramaniam

Dr. Subramaniam is the Chair of the Bioengineering Department and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Bioengineering and Systems Biology. In addition, he holds joint appointments in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Nanoengineering at UCSD and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He was the founding Director of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Interdisciplinary Program at UCSD.

Dr. Subramaniam is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and is a recipient of the UCSD Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence, and Genome All Star, Smithsonian Foundation and Laboratory Automation awards. In 2008, he was awarded the Faculty Excellence in Research Award at the University of California at San Diego. He was named a distinguished scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, in 2010.

Dr. Subramaniam is also a Guest Professor at the Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at the University of Oslo in Norway and Professor at the Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics and Modeling at Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of the National Institute for Health (NIH) Director’s Advisory Committee on Bioinformatics, which produced the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI) report.

Dr. Subramaniam serves on the external advisory boards for several Bio/Biomedical Engineering Departments including Johns Hopkins U., Case Western Reserve U., U. Penn, Georgia Tech, Rice U. and UT Austin, as well as corporates in the biotechnology and bioinformatics industry. Currently, he is also an overseas advisor for the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India, and a member of a European Science Foundation Panel. In addition to this, he is a member of the State of Illinois Governor’s initiative in Biotechnology, and an advisor and reviewer of the State of North Carolina initiative in Biotechnology.