Dr. Ramanathan is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo (UB), State University of New York. He received his BTech (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India (1983). After a four year stint in the chemical industry, he obtained a MS in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (1987) and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California-San Francisco and University of California-Berkeley Joint Program in Bioengineering (1994). His PK/PD modeling interests and capabilities include the development of computational and visualization methods to assess drug and disease effects on gene expression, the molecular mechanisms of disease and treatment effects in Multiple Sclerosis and other demylenating diseases, mathematical models for pharmacogenomic signal transduction processes and immuno-modulatory protein methods, and stochastic processes and models to understand the dynamic relationships of sequences of random events applied to disease processes and pharmaceutical interventions.