Bio:

Sharad Ramanathan was trained as a theoretical physicist and was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in the theoretical physics department. He then moved to Harvard, and is currently the Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as well as Professor of Applied Physics and Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. He spent two years at the Allen Institute leading a team modeling human brain development using in vitro stem cell based systems. Since then, his reasearch has focused on modeling human development more accurately in vitro.