Veerasamy "Ravi" Ravichandran, Ph.D.

Responsibilities & Activities

As a Program Director in the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the NIDDK, I oversee a portfolio of research grants that use systems biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, and data science to study both the normal biological processes and the wide spectrum of diseases impacting the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including the alimentary GI tract, hepatobiliary system, exocrine pancreas, as well as nutrition and obesity research.

My responsibilities encompass a range of activities, including data curation, sharing, access, reproducibility, security, analysis, harmonization, quality metrics, standards, and visualization. Additionally, I serve as a representative for NIDDK on NIH-wide committees that are involved in data science initiatives.

Committees & Working Groups

• NIH FAIR Data Working Group, Member
• NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Working Group, Member
• OOR Neuroscience Priorities Working Group, Member
• NIH Data Management and Sharing Expert Panel, Member
• NIH Common Data Elements Working Group, Member
• NIDDK Data Science Working Group, Member
• Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group, Member
• NIDDK Racial and Ethnic Equity in the Workforce Working Group, Member
• NIDDK Obesity Research Working Group, Member
• Trans-NIH WG meeting on Whole Person Health, Member