Researcher

Yohendran Baskaran graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Medical School and worked several years within the Ministry of Health, rotating through the various hospitals and in private practice before pursuing a Biochemistry degree at the University of Cambridge, UK. He then returned to Singapore and took up a PhD program at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB)/NUS, graduated in 2009 and has since been part of the sGSK lab team that specialises in the study of the cell cytoskeleton. A major part of his work is to study PAK4, a member of the group II family of PAK proteins and he has published several papers on the regulation and activation of PAK4 and related proteins.