Ira Agrawal

Dr. Ira Agrawal is an instructor and research fellow at the National University of Singapore, affiliated with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Department of Physiology. She contributes to the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Program, focusing on neurodegeneration and aging.

Her research emphasizes integrated multi-omics data analysis to uncover non-cell autonomous glial regulatory mechanisms and cryptic splicing events in motor neuron diseases like ALS. She has taught courses such as Bioinformatics, Neuropharmacology, and Computational Genomics since 2016.

• 2025: Integrated aberrant transcript detection
• 2024: Fish biomarker genes for PCB126 exposure
• 2022: Lipid dysregulation in ALS
• 2021: TDP-43's role in myelination and neuroinflammation
• 2019: Liver tumor regression in zebrafish
• 2016: Reference gene identification and hepatotoxicity mechanisms

Her work bridges computational biology and environmental toxicology, with publications spanning ALS pathology, zebrafish models, and transcriptomic tools for oncology research.