Dr.Ramalingam Sankaran is a Clinician and Pharmacologist by training. After a career as an educator at PSG institute of Medical Sciences and Research (PSGIMSR), Coimbatore, India, he pursued his post-Doctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA and University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He underwent training on pharmacometrics and carried out research projects during his stints abroad. He started the Population Approach Group in India (PAGIN) a non-profit organization to promote population approach of pharmacokinetic data analysis in India in the year 2008. He is instrumental in conducting annual training programs every year over the past decade. These programs benefited academicians, students and industry scientists of pharmacometrics in India. PAGIN is now evolving into a formal Society of Pharmacometrics and Health Analytics (SOPHAS) and Dr. Ramalingam Sankaran is the founder president of this society and guiding the group in this new journey. He is currently the Dean of PSGIMSR.

Dr Sudha Ramalingam is an MD in Community Medicine with postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford school of Medicine and University of Chicago in Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology respectively. She was awarded the Fulbright scholarship to work in environmental epigenetics at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, USA. Her areas of work involve Environmental Health, Clinical research, Translational research and ethics. Presently she is the Director of Research and Innovation and Professor and Head of Community Medicine at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore. In addition, she is affiliated to Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health as a Lowns visiting scientist in global health. She has been involved in organizing PAGIN workshops since it's inception and was an executive council member of SOPHAS.