R. Sirdeshmukh

Ravi Sirdeshmukh (Hindi: रवि सरदेशमुख) is an Indian cancer biologist and proteomicist. He is a distinguished scientist and incumbent associate director of the Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) in Bangalore, founding president of the Proteomics Society of India and senior research advisor at the Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research (MSCTR) in Bangalore. He is also an elected member of the Council of Human Proteome Organization. He is most noted for his contributions in the Human Proteome Project where he served as the Group Leader for the countries like India, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Sirdeshmukh is also an invited member of the Council of Asian Oceanean HUPO (AOHUPO).

Education and career
Sirdeshmukh graduated with an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He then completed his Ph.D. at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad. He worked in the USA as a visiting researcher at the Washington University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Sirdeshmukh worked at CCMB for more than two decades and headed the proteomics laboratory as director before joining the  Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) as a distinguished scientist. He also works as a consultant in neuro-oncology research at the Mazumdar-Shaw Center for Translational Research (MSCTR), where he leads transnational research programs on brain tumors. Ravi Sirdeshmukh is a member of the research advisory boards of several institutes and centers, such as the US Pharmacopeia (USP) for protein therapeutics, the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) and the Asian Oceanian HUPO (AOHUPO). He was also thereby connected to international research initiatives such as the Membrane Proteomics Initiative of AOHUPO and the Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project initiated by HUPO.

Sirdeshmukh is also a reviewer for various international proteomics journals and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Proteins and Proteomics. He is also the founding president of the Proteomics Society India.

Research area
His research interests extend to the areas of protein and nucleic acid biochemistry and his previous work includes RNA processing, mRNA stability, structure-function relationship of ribonucleases and their regulation. More recently, his interest has been in the areas of proteomics of gliomas – a major class of brain tumors and head and neck cancers.

Honors and positions
Sirdeshmukh has been honored with memberships in several national and international bodies. This includes
 * Member of the Scientific Advisory Board: Institute of Cytology and Preventive Medicine (ICMR, Noida); Institute of Pathology, (ICMR, New Delhi); Council of Human Proteome Organization; Council of Asian Oceanean HUPO; National Facility for Advanced Proteomics and Protein Research (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata); US Pharmacopeia (USA; responsible for protein and glycoprotein analysis)
 * Biotechnology Study Committee Member: Osmania University (Hyderabad)
 * Member of the editorial board: Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics
 * Reviewer of scientific journals: Annals of Neurology, Journal of Proteome Research, Proteomics, Proteomics: Clinical Applications
 * Head of the CSIR Proteomics Network for International Collaborations
 * invited member of the Council of Human Proteome Organization (HUPO)