Shazib Pervaiz

Shazib Pervaiz holds a Full Professorship in the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Over the years, he has held various leadership positions at the YLL School of Medicine, such as Vice Dean (Research and Graduate Education) and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He is spearheading a group investigating cellular redox status and its impact on cancer cell fate decisions with an overall objective of identifying novel targets for therapeutic intervention.

He has authored more than 145 research papers and book chapters and his research work is highly cited in the field, as indicated by over 12000 citations and an H-index of 52 (by Google Scholar). He has been an invited speaker at several international and regional conferences and is serving on the editorial boards of several international peer-reviewed journals. He was elected to the European Cell Death Organization (ECDO) Academy in 2013. Being a Clinician Scientist, he also has an extensive understanding of working with the healthcare sector as well as with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

Research Areas of Interest

• Regulation of Cell Death Signaling in Cancer Cells
• Reactive Oxygen Species and Cell Fate
• Bcl-2 Family and Mitochondrial Metabolism
• Protein Phosphatase PP2A and Cancer
• Autophagy and Cancer
• Experimental Therapeutics