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Ram Sasisekharan is the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been a faculty member at MIT since 1996 and served as the Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology from 2008 to 2012. His research focuses on developing computational, structural, and analytical biological tools to decode structure-function relationships in complex glycans and their interactions with proteins. The Sasisekharan Laboratory employs multidisciplinary strategies to integrate technologies and further study complex polysaccharides that are important in host disease processes. The central goal of his research is to ultimately develop novel therapeutic approaches to alleviate suffering from diseases and promote overall human health. Additionally, the technologies developed in his laboratory have led to the founding of multiple local biotechnology companies.