Researcher

Jayantha Gunaratne is a Senior Principal Scientist with over two decades of extensive experience in biochemical and biomedical research. He has been the head of the Translational Biomedical Proteomics lab at the A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB) since 2011. He obtained his Doctor of Science degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and postdoctoral training from Script Institution, the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California. In 2007, he joined A*STAR IMCB as a founding member of the newly formed Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Systems Biology lab, pioneering the establishment of state-of-the-art proteomics technology in Singapore.

Gunaratne’s academic experiences include serving as an adjunct faculty in medical schools including Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Cell and Molecular Therapy division in A*STAR IMCB. His group’s current research focuses on the discovery and development of ectoproteomic-centric disease functional biomarkers including therapeutic targets.