Ramkumar Mohan, Ph.D

Ram joined us in November 2021 as a Research Investigator. He graduated from Michigan Tech with a Ph.D. in 2016 and completed his postdoctoral training in the lab of Emilyn Alejandro, University of Minnesota (2016-2019) and in the lab of Arun Ananthram, University of Michigan (2019-2021).


He has more than 10 years of research experience working with neuroendocrine cells, namely - pancreatic islets and adrenal chromaffin cells. His research interest is to find novel modulators of hormone secretion from these cells by expanding our current understanding of pathways involved in cell development, communication, function, and plasticity under various disease states, including obesity and diabetes.


His projects in the lab will involve elucidating the sex differences in diet-induced inflammation. He hopes to expand his knowledge on adipose biology and immune cells and be able to bring the experiences together to focus on intra-organ communication in his future projects.