Dr. Bhusal is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) at Monash University. He completed Bachelor in pharmacy from Pokhara University (Nepal). After completion of his Bachelor's degree, he worked in a pharmaceutical company in Nepal for more than a year then secured a scholarship to pursue his Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical chemistry at Wonkwang University (South Korea). After his Master’s degree, He worked as a lecturer, undergraduate research supervisor and research coordinator in a college affiliated to Pokhara University for more than three years (Nepal). During that period, he co-founded a small pharmaceutical manufacturing (generics) company, demonstrating his entrepreneurial prowess. Ram earned his Ph.D. at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) in the discipline of chemical biology under the auspices of the competitive University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship.

Dr. Bhusal is experienced in chemical synthesis, molecular biology techniques, the production and purification of recombinant proteins, the binding and kinetic assays of proteins using various biophysical techniques, and the crystallization of proteins and structure determination.

Currently, Dr. Bhusal’s project involves characterizing a novel family of tick proteins (evasins) that target chemokines to suppress inflammation. His long-term career interest centers on investigating biochemical mechanisms in the context of infectious disease and the host immune response.