Ramana Davuluri, Ph.D.

Dr. Davuluri is an Associate Professor and Director of Computational Biology within the Center for Systems and Computational Biology at The Wistar Institute. He also serves as Scientific Director of the Bioinformatics Facility of The Wistar Institute Cancer Center. He joined the faculty of The Wistar Institute in early 2008. Before joining Wistar, he worked as an Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2007 in the Human Cancer Genetics Program, Dept. of Molecular Virology, Immunology, & Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, OH and also maintained academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Statistics at OSU. He obtained the tenure and promoted as Associate Professor in 2007 at OSU. He also worked as head of the bioinformatics consulting unit in the human cancer genetics program at the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Davuluri obtained his MS and PhD in the field of Statistics, from IASRI/IARI, New Delhi, India, under the supervision of Dr. VK Gupta, and completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Zhang at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Dr. Davuluri has worked in the areas of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics since 1998. His work has focused almost exclusively on promoter annotation and transcriptional regulation in mammalian organisms. His research findings have been published in notable peer-reviewed journals, while the bioinformatics and translational research communities utilize the computational tools (e.g. FirstEF, MPromDb) that he has developed.