Rajat Singh MD

Rajat Singh is the laboratory head. He is a clinician by training but a basic scientist at heart. He obtained his Medical and Postgraduate Degrees in the eastern city of Calcutta (think Mother Teresa) and the northern city of Chandigarh in India. He then moved to the U.S. in 2004 to carry out his postdoctoral work in autophagy and liver with Mark Czaja and the autophagy guru Ana Maria Cuervo and stumbled upon the role of autophagy in fat breakdown when he saw the accumulation of large lipid droplets when the autophagolysosomal system was suppressed. Keywords that excite Rajat are autophagy, lysosomes, time, lipid sensing, mTOR, and aging. In his free time, Rajat loves to play one of his six electric guitars or program patches on his Korg synth. He also plays drums, piano, and bass and used to be a vocalist in a number of bands while growing up. He is also a keen audio engineer, and he thinks he can cook.