{"id":310241,"date":"2026-05-11T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:55:09","slug":"la500-2026-joe-ramos-los-angeles-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310241\/","title":{"rendered":"LA500 2026: Joe Ramos &#8211; Los Angeles Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778504109_118_w=9999.jpeg\" alt=\"Joe Ramos\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive<br \/>Lundquist Institute<\/p>\n<p>Joe Ramos became president and chief executive of the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation \u2013 a leading nonprofit biomedical research organization at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in West Carson \u2013 in early 2025. Since then, Ramos has faced federal research funding cuts and grant denials \u2013 a challenge that has tested the institute\u2019s resilience and his leadership.<br \/>Education: Bachelor\u2019s degree, University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine<br \/>First job: Bag boy at a grocery store<br \/>Favorite book: \u201cThe Emperor of All Maladies\u201d by Siddhartha Mukherjee<br \/>Favorite pastime or hobby: Music<br \/>Favorite restaurant for fun: The Strand<br \/>Favorite restaurant for business: Ise-Shima Sushi in Torrance<br \/>Favorite quote: \u201cMeasure twice, cut once.\u201d \u2013 as conveyed by his father<\/p>\n<p>YEARS ON LA500: 1 Year on the LA500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief ExecutiveLundquist Institute Joe Ramos became president and chief executive of the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[130194,131,133,132,130195],"class_list":["post-310241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-joe-ramos","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-lundquist-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}