Founders · Co-Founder & CEO
Janakiram (Ram) Mudumbai
Student founder, Presidential Volunteer Service Award Gold Medalist, and National Science Bee national qualifier who has spent four summers inside hospitals and five years raising money for children who needed it.
- 2023
- Presidential Volunteer Service Award, Gold Medal
- 2026
- National Science Bee, national qualifier
- $100K+
- Helped raise for Sanjeevani Community Kitchen, Willingboro NJ
- $20K+
- Raised for Netra Vidyalaya school for the blind (2023, 2025)
- 4 summers
- Clinical shadowing: neurology, pain medicine, anesthesiology, cardiology, GI
- Weekly
- Patient volunteer, Capital Health Regional Medical Center
- Leadership
- Youth Director, VT Seva · VP, Academic Team · National Honor Society
- Languages
- English, Telugu, Spanish; Sanskrit and Tamil verse
Ram co-founded the World Peace & Prosperity Foundation as a high-school student in New Jersey with a simple conviction: the families he met in hospital wards and community kitchens deserved prevention, not just prescriptions.
He has shadowed physicians across neurology, pain medicine, anesthesiology, cardiology, and gastroenterology over four summers, and volunteers weekly at Capital Health Regional Medical Center, where he runs the patient tea cart and sits with patients who need someone to talk to.
As Youth Director of VT Seva he led fundraising that raised more than $10,000 in 2023 and again in 2025 for Netra Vidyalaya, a school for visually impaired children in India, and helped raise over $100,000 for the Sanjeevani community kitchen in Willingboro, New Jersey, which serves free hot meals to the neighborhood.
Ram built the foundation's first website and designed its patient surveys. He codes in Java, Python, and JavaScript, competes nationally in science, and intends to become a physician.
Teaching
Instructor, Open Bench
What a high school senior is, and is not, qualified to teach — and the two physicians who review each unit.
Published work
OB-D-001 · Atopic eczema (atopic dermatitis)
The reference dossier, built from live Open Targets data and reproducible by anyone in an afternoon.
Ram is a high school senior. He is not a scientist, a physician, or a teacher, and Open Bench does not pretend otherwise. What qualifies him to teach this course is narrower and checkable: he wrote it, every factual claim in it is sourced to a public database or a published paper you can open yourself, two physicians review each unit before it is taught, and he has done the capstone himself and published it for anyone to pull apart.
The other founder
Lakshman Mudumbai
Co-Founder