Uttam Surana received a PhD degree in 1986 from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona, US. After research stints at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria, Surana joined IMCB in 1992 where he is a Research Director. He is also an Adjunct Professor at A*STAR’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute, the Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and the Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI), National University of Singapore. For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of control circuits that regulate cell division, Surana was awarded Singapore’s National Science Award in 2007.
