Ramnath Ramanathan is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2011-12. He works for Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. (India). For more than 6 years with Reliance, he has been working on various branches of laboratory animal research. He started his carrier with monitoring quality of laboratory animals. Currently, his major field of work is toxicology. His interests include creation and research on animal models of human diseases.  

Ramanathan received his Masters degree in biotechnology from the Univeristy of Madras and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Mumbai University.