Biography

Dr. Murugan Ramalingam is Professor at the Centre for Stem Cell Research (a unit of the Institute forStem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine-Bengaluru), Christian Medical College Campus, India.Concurrently he is Adjunct Professor at the Tohoku University, Japan. Prior to joining the CSCR, he wasAssociate Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Institut National de la Santé et de laRecherche Médicale, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Université de Strasbourg, France. He has worked atthe WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Japan, as an Assistant Professor. He has also workedat the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH),under the U.S. National Academies Associateship program. He received his Ph.D. in Biomaterials fromthe University of Madras. He has also undergone training in Ethical and Policy issues on Stem Cells fromHarvard University, USA, and in Operations Management from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Hiscurrent research interests are focused on the development of multiphase biomedical materials, throughconventional to nanotechnology to biomimetic approaches, microfabrication, cell patterning, stem celldifferentiation, tissue engineering and drug delivery. He is the author of ~300 publications, including 20textbooks relevant to biomaterials, stem cells, and tissue engineering. His current h-index is 37 with 8700citations. He has organized several international conferences and chaired Biomaterials,Nanobiotechnology, Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering sessions. He also serves as a board member ofseveral international scientific and research committees in various public and private bodies and grantreviewer of various international funding agencies. He serves on the editorial boards of multiplebiomaterials and tissue engineering-related journals, including the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal ofBiomaterials and Tissue Engineering and the Journal of Bionanoscience. He is a recipient of severalprestigious fellowships and awards, including CSIR Fellowship (India), SMF Fellowship (Singapore),NRC National Academies Fellowship (USA), Nationale Professeur des Universités (France), Fellow ofInstitute of Nanotechnology (UK) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).

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Research Interest

Stem Cell