Harinder Singh

Biography

Dr. Singh has more than 25 years of scientific research and academic experience in the fields of Molecular Biology and Immunology. He is currently Director of the Division of Immunobiology and the Center for Systems Immunology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. From 1989-2009, Dr. Singh was a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Genetics and an HHMI Investigator at the University of Chicago. He then moved to Genentech as Senior Director and Staff Scientist in the Department of Discovery Immunology and was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Singh holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the College of Basic Sciences and Humanities at Punjab Agricultural University in India and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology from Northwestern University. He has served as Chair of the Basic Science Advisory Committee to the National Cancer Institute and has authored more than 90 research papers, review articles, and book chapters including publications in Nature, Science, Cell, Immunity and Nature Immunology. Dr. Singh’s current research is focused on gene regulatory networks that orchestrate distinct effector states of innate and adaptive immune cells. 

Research Interest

molecular biology