Affiliation: Ophthalmology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Charandeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and holding grants such as R01 from NIH and a few from Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Foundation. Before this, he was working as an Instructor in Investigation at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and an Associated Researcher with the Broad Institute. He also worked as a research associate at Cleveland Clinic, where he worked under Dr. Henri Brunengraber and Dr. Jonathan Sears supervision.

He obtained his PhD from Dr. Carole Linster’s lab at LCSB, Luxembourg. During his PhD under Dr. Linster’s supervision, he had discovered a previously unknown pentose-phosphate pathway enzyme D-Ribulokinase in yeast and mammals. His PhD was fully funded by an AFR FNR grant and a Pelican award. Before starting his PhD, he completed his MSc in Molecular Biotechnology with Merit from the University of Birmingham. A head of the school scholarship partially funded his MSc. During his MSc, he worked under Dr. Helen Cooper’s supervision to develop the HCD-PI-ETD mass spectrometry method to characterize glycoproteins. Before moving to mainstream science, he was trained as an engineer, and he obtained a B. Eng. degree with Honors from the University of Rajasthan, India.

Altogether, he has close to ten years of experience in metabolic research, and he continues to apply his training to find the metabolic basis of various diseases.