Lakshminarayanan Rajamani
Associate Professor
Ophthalmology
Sing Health research
Singapore
Biography
Dr. R. Lakshminarayanan obtained his PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore in 2003. He was a recipient of the Singapore Millennium Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in 2002 and ASEM-DUO-Denmark fellowship in 2004. He joined as a Research Associate at the University of Southern California from 2005 - 2009. In May 2009, he joined the Singapore Eye Research Institute as a Senior Research Scientist and promoted as Principal Research Scientist in 2014. He received the New Investigator Grant (NIG) and the Co-operative Basic Research Grant (CBRG) from NMRC and Sing Health Foundation Grant. His research focus includes (a) design of antifungal peptides and antimicrobial polymers, (b) antibiotic adjuvants for combating Gram-negative bacteria, (c) topical delivery of antimicrobial peptides, (d) durable antimicrobial coatings and the mechanism of protein aggregation diseases.
Research Interest
Antimicrobial peptides, Protein aggregation, Protein-Protein interactions, Extracellular Matrix Assembly, Antimicrobial coatings, Electrospinning and electrospraying.
