Bharat Ramratnam, MD Retrovirology Service Core Co-Director
Mailing Address:	Brown Medical School Department of Medicine/Retrovirology Lab 55 Claverick St. - 4th Floor Providence, RI 02903
Telephone:	(401) 444-5219
Email:	BRamratnam@lifespan.org

Dr. Bharat Ramratnam is Co-Director of the Retrovirology Services Core. He is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Ramratnam completed his undergraduate and medical education at Brown University and was resident and chief resident of Medicine at Brown Medical School. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in Virology at the Rockefeller University, New York, NY, he returned to Brown to establish an independent laboratory specializing in virology and gene therapy. His honors include the Daland Fellowship from the American Philosophical Association, a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Foundation, and a career-training award from the National Institutes of Health. His current NIH supported research program focuses on RNA interference and its use as a therapeutic and preventative for chronic viral infections.