Dr. R. Lakshminarayanan obtained his PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore in 2003. He was a recipient of the Singapore Millennium Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in 2002 and ASEM-DUO-Denmark fellowship in 2004. He joined as a Research Associate at the University of Southern California from 2005 - 2009. In May 2009, he joined the Singapore Eye Research Institute as a Senior Research Scientist and promoted as Principal Research Scientist in 2014. He received the New Investigator Grant (NIG) and the Co-operative Basic Research Grant (CBRG) from NMRC and Sing Health Foundation Grant. His research focus includes (a) design of antifungal peptides and antimicrobial polymers, (b) antibiotic adjuvants for combating Gram-negative bacteria, (c) topical delivery of antimicrobial peptides, (d) durable antimicrobial coatings and the mechanism of protein aggregation diseases.

Antimicrobial peptides, Protein aggregation, Protein-Protein interactions, Extracellular Matrix Assembly, Antimicrobial coatings, Electrospinning and electrospraying.