narasimhan kothandaraman

research scientist

About

OMICS specialist with special emphasis on biomarker discovery and validation across different platforms. Successful in translating bench side discoveries to bed side. Expertise in Mass spectroscopy and Deep Sequencing. More than 10 years experience in teaching post graduate and undergraduate students in Singapore, KSA and US. Major area of specialization: 1) Reproductive Medicine (Male and female infertility research) 2) Male infertility research 3) Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis 4) Neurobiology (Autism spectrum disorders) 5) Phytoremediation and Biofilms

Country

singapore

City

singapore

Industry

research

Skill

proteomics, genomics, biomarker discovery, biomarker development, data mining, gc ms, nano uplc, maldi tof ms, cell biology, pcr, molecular biology, polymerase chain reaction, life sciences, cancer, biochemistry, cell culture, sequencing, genetics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, drug discovery, science, research, western blotting

Experience

research scientist

a-star

2017-10 - Present · 9 yrs

consultant

biomedical research scientist

2016-9 - Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

research fellow a

national university health system

2007-6 - 2010-8 · 3 yrs 3 mos

research scientist

kau

2010-8 - 2014-9 · 4 yrs 2 mos

* 2012 (as Principal Investigator) * Title: Molecular Pathogenesis of Autism, Schizophrenia, and Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders in KSA * 2012 (as Principal Investigator) * Title: Establishment of New Emerging miRNOME based Technologies for the Development of “miRNOME” Based Markers for Diagnosis and Prognostication of Solid Epithelial Malignancies in Patients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

scientific officer

national university hospital

2003-10 - 2007-6 · 3 yrs 9 mos

* 2005: Co-Investigator * Title: Characterization of Low Molecular Weight Tumor Specific Markers for Ovarian Cancer from Serum of Ovarian Cancer Patients” * 2005: Collaborator * Title: Enhancing enrichment of fetal primitive erythroblasts (FNRBCs) from maternal blood by identification of unique fetal surface antigens and the development of a novel MEMS device to deplete adult anucleate erythrocytes.

research fellow

national university of singapore

2001-9 - 2003-10 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Facility Manager Microarray and Proteomics Laboratory

research scientist

cleveland clinic

2016-4 - 2016-8 · 5 mos

Conduct independent research on proteomics of male infertility. Narasimhan et al., Pathogenic landscape of idiopathic male infertility: new insight towards its regulatory networks. npj Genomic Medicine - Nature. 2016.