Vivek Tanavde's Biography

Vivek Tanavde, Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute

Dr. Vivek Tanavde is currently a Principal Investigator at the Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR. Prior to joining BII, he was heading the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Lab at Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai where his work focused on developing mesenchymal stromal cell based therapies for cardiac and neuronal disorders. In addition, he also set up and managed the clinical flow cytometry laboratory at Reliance Life Sciences. From 1999 to 2002 he was a post doctoral fellow with Dr. Curt Civin at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Centre, Johns Hopkins University working on expansion of hematopoietic stem cells from umbilical cord blood. Dr. Tanavde obtained his Ph.D from the Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai (1999) in Applied Biology. He is currently the Secretary of the Stem Cell Society Singapore & serves on the Live Education Task Force of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). He also holds an adjunct appointment at the Institute for Medical Biology (IMB), A*STAR.