Researcher

Jayantha Gunaratne is a Senior Principal Scientist with over two decades of extensive experience in biochemical and biomedical research. He is the head of the Translational Biomedical Proteomics lab at A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Singapore since 2011. He obtained his Doctor of Science degree from 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 IMCB as a founding member of the newly formed Advanced Mass Spectrometry & Systems Biology lab, pioneering the establishment of state-of-the-art proteomics technology in Singapore. His 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. His group’s current research focuses on the discovery and development of Ectoproteomic-centric disease functional biomarkers including therapeutic targets.