Meet Dr. Amrit Singh, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
Name:
Dr. Amrit Singh
My pronouns:
He/him/his
Title:
Assistant Professor
Campus:
Vancouver

How long have you worked at the UBC Faculty of Medicine?
Three and a half years.
Tell us about your research in one or two sentences:
I lead the Computational Biology Lab, where we investigate cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure, heart transplant rejection, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using diverse high-throughput technologies to profile molecular data (e.g., gene and protein expression) from blood and heart tissue, integrated with clinical information. We also develop novel computational methods for multi-omics analysis and integration (e.g., DIABLO) to enable biomarker discovery and uncover molecular mechanisms of disease.
What’s your favourite thing about your work?
It’s never a dull day. Whether it’s participating in meetings, debugging code, writing, teaching or working with trainees, each day is different from the one before!
What do you hope will change as a result of this research?
Patient care and treatment. The goal for most projects includes biomarker discovery to improve disease diagnosis and prognosis, or to understand disease mechanisms to identify targets for therapeutics.
Are there any research collaborators you’d like to acknowledge and why?
I would like to acknowledge Drs. Tobias Kollmann and Nelly Amenyogbe from Dalhousie University, who study the mechanisms of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine — the oldest vaccine in use worldwide. Together, we conducted a project to examine how the body and immune system respond to BCGvaccination over time using dermatoscopy, digital pathology, skin spatial transcriptomics and blood gene-expression profiling. Their passion for research has been truly inspiring, and this work has led to an ongoing and productive collaboration.
What makes you laugh?
The antics of my three-year-old. Also, all kinds of memes, reels and stories on social media.
Published: October 2025