Dr. Ramesh Vemulapalli is Executive Associate Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University.  Before assuming this role in 2022, he served as Head of the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology for 6 years.  He held faculty and administrative positions at Purdue University for 15 years before moving to Texas A&M in 2016.

As Executive Associate Dean, Vemulapalli holds the second-highest administration position at the college and is responsible for helping support the college’s teaching, research, and service missions.  One of his priorities is developing and implementing the best administrative and management practices that promote the career success of faculty and enhance the academic excellence of the college. 

In addition to his administrative duties, Vemulapalli teaches immunology and infectious diseases to veterinary and undergraduate students and conducts research on infectious diseases.   His primary research focus is on zoonotic pathogens of One Health importance, including Brucella spp. His research projects have been funded by NIH and USDA. His international activities included advising the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, on their Network Project on Brucellosis, providing hands-on molecular diagnostics workshops to veterinarians in Kabul, Afghanistan, and serving as an expert consultant to the Animal Health Division of the International Atomic Energy Agency on irradiated brucellosis vaccines. 

Vemulapalli received his veterinary training in India and later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.