Dr Charumathi Sabanayagam is a Clinician Scientist and the Deputy Head of Health Service Research Unit at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. She also holds a joint appointment in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. She received her medical degree from University of Madras, India and MPH and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the National University of Singapore. She received the NUS Graduate Fellowship and the prestigious President Graduate fellowship to pursue her PhD in 2009. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in diabetes and cardiovascular epidemiology at West Virginia University School of Public Health in the US in 2011. Her research is focused on the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, age-related eye diseases, and novel biomarkers in renal and retinal diseases. She has published over 70 original articles, mostly as first/second author. Some of her first-author papers have been published in prestigious journals including American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Diabetologia and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease, and age-related eye diseases in particular, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration, Link between renal and retinal diseases, Role of novel biomarkers such as retinal microvascular abnormalities, sleep, markers of inflammation, oxidative stress in renal and retinal diseases