Byrappa Venkatesh

Biography

  Byrappa Venkatesh obtained his BSc and MSc from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India and PhD from the National University of Singapore. He did his postdoctoral studies under the Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner at the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cambridge, UK and returned to Singapore in 1992 to set up this Lab. He is currently a Professor and Research Director in IMCB, an adjunct Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore and a Joint Scientist at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In recognition of his achievements, Venkatesh was honored with Singapore's "National Science Award" in 2004. He is a member of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) and a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. He is also a chairperson of the 'Genome 10K' project, an international project which aims to catalogue genomes of 10,000 vertebrates

Research Interest

  Molecular and Cell Biology