Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan
	Ramakrishnan in 2015
62nd President of the Royal Society
	In office; 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020
Preceded by	Paul Nurse
Succeeded by	Adrian Smith
Personal details
Born	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; 1952 (age 71–72); Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India
Citizenship	United Kingdom; United States;
Spouse	Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975)
Children	1
Parent	Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan (mother);
Relatives	Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister)
Residence	United Kingdom
Website	www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/venki-ramakrishnan
Known for	Structure and function of the ribosome; macromolecular crystallography;
Awards	Knight Bachelor (2012); Padma Vibhushan (2010); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009); Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004); Order of Merit (2022);
Academic background
Education	Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (BSc); University of California, San Diego; Ohio University (PhD);
Alma mater	Ohio University
Thesis	The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Tomoyasu Tanaka
Academic work
School or tradition	Biochemistry; Biophysics;
Institutions	Laboratory of Molecular Biology; University of Cambridge; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Yale University; University of Utah; Brookhaven National Laboratory;

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes.^[6]^[9]^[10]^[11]

Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16] He served as President of the Royal Society from 2015 to 2020.^[17]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Biography: From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science". nobelprize.org. Stockholm. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^ Anon (2015). "Ramakrishnan, Sir Venkatraman". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45543. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Cite error: The named reference physrevb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cerf, Corinne; Lippens, Guy; Muyldermans, Serge; Segers, Alain; Ramakrishnan, V.; Wodak, Shoshana J.; Hallenga, Klaas; Wyns, Lode (1993). "Homo- and heteronuclear two-dimensional NMR". Biochemistry. 32 (42): 11345–11351. doi:10.1021/bi00093a011. PMID 8218199.
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^ ^a ^b "2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
^ Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, jeantet.ch. Accessed 30 December 2022.
^ Cite error: The named reference OM appointment was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Rodnina, Marina V.; Wintermeyer, Wolfgang (2010). "The ribosome goes Nobel". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 35 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2009.11.003. PMID 19962317.
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^ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Audio Interview Official Nobel Foundation website telephone interview
^ Nair, Prashant (2011). "Profile of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (38): 15676–15678. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10815676N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1113044108. PMC 3179092. PMID 21914843.
^ "Biologist Venki Ramakrishnan to lead Royal Society". BBC News. London. 18 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 October 2015.
^ James, Nathan Rhys (2017). Structural insights into noncanonical mechanisms of translation. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.13713. OCLC 1064932062. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.725540.
^ Venki Ramakrishnan Official website
^ Ramakrishnan, Venki (2018). Gene machine. The race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome. London: Oneworld. ISBN 9781786074362. OCLC 1080631601.
^ Peplow, M. (2015). "Structural biologist named president of UK Royal Society". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17153. S2CID 112623895.

[nobio-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Biography: From Chidambaram to Cambridge: A Life in Science". nobelprize.org. Stockholm. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2022.

[whoswho-2] Anon (2015). "Ramakrishnan, Sir Venkatraman". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45543. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[physrevb-3] Cite error: The named reference physrevb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[brookhaven-4] Cerf, Corinne; Lippens, Guy; Muyldermans, Serge; Segers, Alain; Ramakrishnan, V.; Wodak, Shoshana J.; Hallenga, Klaas; Wyns, Lode (1993). "Homo- and heteronuclear two-dimensional NMR". Biochemistry. 32 (42): 11345–11351. doi:10.1021/bi00093a011. PMID 8218199.

[sirvenki-5] Cite error: The named reference sirvenki was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[laureates-6] "2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.

[Louis-Jeantet_Prize-7] Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, jeantet.ch. Accessed 30 December 2022.

[OM_appointment-8] Cite error: The named reference OM appointment was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Rodnina_Wintermeyer_2010_pp._1–5-9] Rodnina, Marina V.; Wintermeyer, Wolfgang (2010). "The ribosome goes Nobel". Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 35 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2009.11.003. PMID 19962317.

[ramak-10] Cite error: The named reference ramak was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[11] Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Audio Interview Official Nobel Foundation website telephone interview

[12] Nair, Prashant (2011). "Profile of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (38): 15676–15678. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10815676N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1113044108. PMC 3179092. PMID 21914843.

[bbc-13] "Biologist Venki Ramakrishnan to lead Royal Society". BBC News. London. 18 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 October 2015.

[nphd-14] James, Nathan Rhys (2017). Structural insights into noncanonical mechanisms of translation. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.13713. OCLC 1064932062. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.725540.

[15] Venki Ramakrishnan Official website

[genemachine-16] Ramakrishnan, Venki (2018). Gene machine. The race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome. London: Oneworld. ISBN 9781786074362. OCLC 1080631601.

[17] Peplow, M. (2015). "Structural biologist named president of UK Royal Society". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17153. S2CID 112623895.

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Venki Ramakrishnan
Ramakrishnan in 2015

62nd President of the Royal Society
In office 1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020
Preceded by	Paul Nurse
Succeeded by	Adrian Smith

Personal details
Born	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 (age 71–72) Chidambaram, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India
Citizenship	United Kingdom United States
Spouse	Vera Rosenberry (m. 1975) ^[1]
Children	1^[1]
Parent	Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan (mother)
Relatives	Lalita Ramakrishnan (sister)
Residence	United Kingdom
Website	www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/venki-ramakrishnan

Known for	Structure and function of the ribosome macromolecular crystallography
Awards	Knight Bachelor (2012)^[5] Padma Vibhushan (2010) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)^[6] Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2007)^[7] Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004) Order of Merit (2022)^[8]

Academic background
Education	Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (BSc) University of California, San Diego^[2] Ohio University (PhD)
Alma mater	Ohio University
Thesis	The Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Tomoyasu Tanaka^[1]^[3]
Academic work
School or tradition	Biochemistry Biophysics
Institutions	Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge^[1] Oak Ridge National Laboratory^[1] Yale University^[1] University of Utah^[1] Brookhaven National Laboratory^[4]