Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan
Nobel_Prize_2009-Press_Conference_KVA-08
Ramakrishnan in 2015
62nd President of the Royal Society
In office
1 December 2015 – 30 November 2020
Preceded byPaul Nurse
Succeeded byAdrian 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
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(m. 1975)​
[1]
Children1[1]
Parent
RelativesLalita Ramakrishnan (sister)
ResidenceUnited Kingdom
Websitewww2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/venki-ramakrishnan
Known for
Awards
Academic background
Education
Alma materOhio University
ThesisThe Green Function Theory of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Potassium Dihydrogen-Phosphate (1976)
Doctoral advisorTomoyasu Tanaka[1][3]
Academic work
School or tradition
Institutions

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]

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  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.
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  6. ^ a b "2009 Chemistry Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
  7. ^ Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, jeantet.ch. Accessed 30 December 2022.
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  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.
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  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. Open access icon
  13. ^ "Biologist Venki Ramakrishnan to lead Royal Society". BBC News. London. 18 March 2015. Archived from the original on 10 October 2015.
  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. Free access icon
  15. ^ Venki Ramakrishnan Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  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.