Asst Prof Bindu SUKUMARAN

• Speaker, Infectious Disease Symposium 
 

Dr Bindu Sukumaran is an Assistant Professor at the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme in Duke-NUS Medical School. She heads an independent laboratory on bacterial pathogenesis and immunity research, studying gram-negative bacilli infections. Dr Sukumaran is also currently serving as the Co-Director of the Duke-NUS Animal Biological Safety Level 3 (ABSL-3) facility.

Dr Sukumaran’s research work has been published in several internationally recognised journals. After completing her doctoral training at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, she pursued post-doctoral training at the Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America, focusing on bacterial pathogenesis.

In 2010, she joined Duke-NUS Medical School. Dr Sukumaran’s research currently focuses on discovering the cell biological and immunological mechanisms underlying mucosal bacterial pathogenesis using both in-vitro and in-vivo mouse model systems and using human patient samples. Her research group works on gram-negative bacterial pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae and uropathogenic E. coli.