Giridharan Periyasamy's Biography

Giridharan Periyasamy, Manager, Genome Institute of Singapore

Dr. Giridharan Periyasamy is a Head of Centre for High Throughput Phenomics (CHiP-GIS) at the Genome institute of Singapore.
His research focus is on the Cancer biology, Drug resistance and signaling pathway networks of human diseases.
In his core, he has potential to run high throughput functional and chemical genomics for target identification/ validation and proof of principle studies. His current focus is on discovery/identification of novel gene function(s) and phenotypes upon RNAi-mediated gene silencing or cDNA over expression for uncovering novel mechanisms of drug resistance. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Scientific Director of HTS/HCS Screening Core Facility at C-CAMP, NCBS, India and a Group Leader at Piramal Life Sciences Ltd in Mumbai India. Dr.Giri studied in Centre for Biotechnology at Anna University where he obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology, and he has more than 15 significant publications and 8 patents to his credit.