B.Sc. & M.Sc. Applied Biology, Ph.D. Applied Biology
Ravi is directly involved in the new company selection process at XL TechGroup as well as non-US business development for existing XL TechGroup companies, including TyraTech. He has been with XL TechGroup since February 2004. Ravi is a recognized authority in the field of in-vitro diagnostics.
In this regard, from 1985 to 1992, he was the Section Manager for retroviruses, tumor markers and PCR diagnostics at Hoffman La Roche. Ravi has co-founded a number of companies, including Specialty Biosystems, Inc. a venture of Specialty Labs, one of the largest independent reference laboratories in California, AccuDx Inc. in California and OncQuest in California. He has also been on the advisory board of several private and public organizations, including the World Health Organization, Global Biopharma, New York and Aethlon Medical of California.
In the academic world, Ravi has been Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Associate Professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in California. As a virologist and molecular biologist, Ravi has over 50 refereed publications to his credit.
Ravi received his undergraduate training in Biological Sciences from the University of Kerala, India and completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Applied Biology [Cancer Research] from Bombay University. He did his postdoctoral training in Genetics at The Jackson Laboratories in Maine and in Medical Virology at Duke University, North Carolina.