Ashok Venkitaraman#
| Membership Number: | 7205 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.a-star.edu.sg/about/corporate-profile/people/prof-ashok-venkitaraman |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025/4 Chief Scientist, Biomedical Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
- 2020/11 Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapor
- 2020/11 Distinguished Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore
- 2020/11 Research Director, Institute for Molecular & Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- 2007/7 Professorial Fellow Emeritus, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1998/8 - 2020/11 The Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2006/1 - 2019/12 Director, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK
- 1991/10 - 1998/8 Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
- 1988/8 - 1991/10 Sir Otto Beit Memorial Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer biology
- Genome stability
- Drug discovery & chemical biology
- Genetics of cancer susceptibility
- Immunology
- B lymphocytes
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Elected to the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences (F.Med.Sci)
- 2004 Elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2018 The Basser Global Prize
- 2025 Elected to the Academy of the American Association of Cancer Research
