Researcher

Jayakumar Perumal is a Senior Scientist I at the Translational Biophotonics Laboratory at A*STAR Skin Research Labs (A*SRL). In 2010, Perumal obtained his PhD in South Korea, specialising in materials engineering and surface chemistry—in particular on polymer-based microfluidics fabrication for various bio-chemical applications. He came to Singapore in 2011 and has been working in A*STAR for more than 12 years. His research interests were mainly on optical diagnostic platform assay development similar to his work on rapid Raman/SERS based portable diagnostics and applying it on different disease biomarker detection. He is working on newer types of non-lithography based scalable plasmonic substrates for point-of-care detection of different bio-chemical analytes. Perumal has several patents and publications to his credit, and he is working towards the development of alpha prototype for early ovarian cancer diagnostics that has drawn strong interest from industries.