Dr. Parameswaran Ramakrishnan completed his Ph.D from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2006 under the guidance of Prof. David Wallach. He did postdoctoral training under the mentoring of nobel laureate Prof. David Baltimore at California Institute of Technology. He have been studying the regulation of the immune system since 1999 and particularly focused on the activation of the transcription factor NF-κB, which orchestrates inflammatory responses and autoimmunity. For the past five years his research focused on the molecular mechanisms controlling NF-κB function in proinflammatory signaling and autoimmune diabetes.