Dr Ramanuj DasGupta

Senior Group Leader, Laboratory of Precision Oncology & Cancer Evolution, Spatial and Single Cell Systems, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR

Dr. DasGupta graduated with a double Bachelor’s degree, in Chemistry (B.Sc. Hons., University of Delhi, India, 1994), and in Genetics (B.A., Cambridge University, UK, 1996). He obtained his Ph. D. in Developmental Biology and Molecular Medicine from the University of Chicago, 2002. Dr. DasGupta conducted his postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School, where he pioneered whole-genome high-throughput, RNAi-based functional genomic screens to identify novel regulators of cell-signalling pathways. In 2006, Dr. DasGupta established his own research laboratory at the NYU-Cancer Institute, where he served as an Associate Professor till 2014. Thereafter, he moved to the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) where he serves as a Senior Group Leader and leads the program in Precision Oncology and Cancer Evolution. The major focus of his program is to define the mechanistic basis for spatio-temporal cross-regulatory interactions between tumor cells and their microenvironment (TME), that drive cellular plasticity and intra-tumor phenotypic heterogeneity, both during tumorigenesis and tumor progression in etiologically distinct solid cancers.