Ravi Sirdeshmukh is an Indian cancer biologist, proteomicist and the associate director and distinguished scientist of the Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) in Bangalore, India. The Proteomics Society, India, which is fiercely committed to proteomics education, is led by him as its founding president. He is also a senior researcher in the Mazumdar-Shaw Center for Translational Research (MSCTR). Education In the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), where Sirdeshmukh later worked as a Senior Scientist, he earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry. Career Sirdeshmukh held positions as a Visiting Associate and a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri, respectively. Before joining the Institute of Bioinformatics as Distinguished Scientist, he held the position of Director-Grade Scientist at the CCMB and oversaw the Proteomics Laboratory. The Membrane Proteomics Initiative of Asia Oceania Human Proteome Organisation (AOHUPO) and the continuing Chromosome Centric Human Proteome Project, both international research endeavours in proteomics, are both affiliated with him. He serves as an expert reviewer for International Proteomics Journals and is a member of the International Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics' Editorial Board. In addition to the US Pharmacopeia for protein therapies, Sirdeshmukh is on the research advisory panels of other institutes and centres in India. He was chosen to serve on the Human Proteome Organization(HUPO)'s and Asian Oceanian HUPO's council. Selected bibliography Kim, M. S., Pinto, S. M., Getnet, D., …….Sirdeshmukh, R.,….. C. A., Gowda, H. and Pandey, A. (2014). A draft map of the human proteome. Nature. 509, 575-581. Chaiyarit S, Singhto N, Chen YJ, Cheng CY, Chiangjong W, Kanlaya R, Lam H, Peerapen P, Sung TY, Tipthara P, Pandey A, Poon TC, Chen YJ, Sirdeshmukh R, Chung MC, Thongboonkerd V. (2014). Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project (C-HPP): Chromosome 12. J Proteome Res. May 15. Gupta, M. K., Jayaram, S., Madugundu, A. K., Chavan, S., Advani, J., Pandey, A., Thongboonkerd, V., Sirdeshmukh, R. (2014). Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project: Deciphering Proteins Associated with Glioma and Neurodegenerative Disorders on Chromosome 12. Journal of Proteome Research. 2014 May 7 Polisetty, R. V., Gautam, P., Gupta, M. K., Sharma, R., Uppin, M. S., Challa, S., Ankathi, P., Purohit, A. K., Renu, D., Harsha, H. C., Pandey, A. and Sirdeshmukh, R. (2013). Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins and their interactors are a major class of deregulated proteins in anaplastic astrocytoma – a Grade III malignant glioma. Journal