Adjunct Staff

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, National University of Singapore, 2015 – Present
• Group Leader and Principal Scientist I, Biomanufacturing Technology Group, July 2023- Present
• Lecturer and Tutor, I – NUS Food Science and Technology, Jan 2022- Aug 2024
• Group Leader and Senior Scientist, BTI A*STAR, 2022- 2023
• Group Leader and Scientist III, BTI A*STAR, 2021-2022   
• Deputy Group Manager, Scientist III, BTI A*STAR, 2020-2021
• Deputy Group Manager, Scientist II, SIMTech A*STAR, 2020
• Industry Development Manager & Scientist II, Bio-Manufacturing Programme, 2019 -2020
• Scientist II, Bio-Manufacturing Programme, 2014-2018
• Scientist I, Microfluidics Manufacturing Programme, 2012-2014
• R & D Assistant, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India, 2007
• Summer Intern, National Brain Research Centre, India, 2006

• Development and production of edible scaffolds/substrates/coatings/microcarriers for Cultivated Meat /Alternative Proteins manufacturing
• Biofabrication methods (g. Electrospinning, Bioprinting, freeze-drying, aerogels, R2P, etc.) for the development of Hybrid Alternative Protein products as well as other tissues
• Packaging for Cultivated meat products
• Organ-on-chips for food safety (Ingredients) analysis
• Biomaterials for Cell Therapy manufacturing
• Biomanufacturing/extracting matrices from cells, animal tissues, plants, fungi, etc.
• Development of sustainable Bioprocessing processes for single-use technologies
• Large-scale processing of Biomaterials for tissue Manufacturing for Skin, Cartilage, and Bone
• 3D Printing/prototyping, Microfluidics  

• Recipient of STAR MENTOR AWARD 2024 (Conferred by A*STAR in Oct 2024) – “An award to formally acknowledge, inspire, and encourage excellent mentorship, and to recognise mentors’ contributions in nurturing the next generation of scientific leaders in Singapore.”
• Top 2% Scientists in the World by Stanford Rankings by single year in 2023 and 2024 under the subcategories of Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology
• BTI A*STAR Talent Advisor – Direct appointment by BTI ED – Lead, Plan and moderate ECR, PhD, RSE technical presentations- 2022-Present
• NUS Graduate School Scholarship, 2008 – 2012
• Best Poster – World Biomaterials Congress 2024, Daegu, South Korea
• Best Poster – Singapore Cell and Gene Therapy (SCGT) Pan Asia Summit 2024
• Best Poster – TERMIS-AP, Hong Kong, 2023

Editorial Board – (a) International Journal of Bioprinting, (b) Frontiers in Medical Technology, (c) Micromachines

Ad Hoc Reviewer of Several Journals – Nature Food, Future Foods, Nature Communications, NPJ Science of Food, Advanced Science, Chemical Reviews, Biofabrication, Trends in Food Science and Technology, Trends in Biotechnology, JOVE, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, SMALL, Bioengineering, Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, Analyst etc.

Selected Publications

1. Le QB, Ezhilarasu H, Chan WW, Patra AT, Murugan P, Venkatesh SA, Tay YK, Lim SR, Abdul Rahim AA, Lee JSZ, Bi X, Choudhury D*. A platform for Bioengineering Tissue Membranes from cell spheroids. Materials Today Bio. 2025;31:101526.
2. Chan WW, Roy KR, Le BQ, Ezhilarasu H, Zhang X, Lim RYD, Banerjee A, Kuriakose M, Ng KJ, Murugan P, Goh CT, Zhou W, Naing MW, Raghavan S, Choudhury D*. A Novel Crosslinking Approach for Biomanufacturing of a Collagen-Based Skin Dermal Template. Macromol Biosci. 2025;25(2):e2400457. (Cover page of the journal)
3. Tor JQ, Le QB, Ezhilarasu H, Chan WW, Choudhury D*. Advancements and regulations of biomanufacturing cell-based cartilage repair therapies. Trends in Biotechnology. 2024.
4. Suntornnond R, Yap WS, Lim PY, Choudhury D*. Redefining the Plate: Biofabrication in Cultivated Meat for Sustainability, Cost-Efficiency, Nutrient Enrichment, and Enhanced Organoleptic Experiences. Current Opinion in Food Science. 2024:101164.
5. Murugan P, Yap WS, Ezhilarasu H, Suntornnond R, Le QB, Singh S, Seah JSH, Tan PL, Zhou W, Tan LP, Choudhury D*. Decellularised plant scaffolds facilitate porcine skeletal muscle tissue engineering for cultivated meat biomanufacturing. npj Science of Food. 2024;8(1).
6. Lim PY, Suntornnond R, Choudhury D*. The Nutritional Paradigm of Cultivated Meat: Bridging Science and Sustainability. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 2024:104838.
7. Kamalapuram SK, Choudhury D*. Industry 4.0 technologies for cultivated meat manufacturing. Food Bioengineering. 2024;3(1):14-28.
8. Chan WW, Le QB, Naing MW, Choudhury D*. Commercialization of skin substitutes for third-degree burn wounds. Trends in Biotechnology. 2024;42(4):385–8.
9. Yap WS, Choudhury D*, Suntornnond R. Towards biomanufacturing of cultured meat. Trends Biotechnol. 2023;41(3):292-4.
10. Singh S, Yap WS, Ge XY, Min VLX, Choudhury D*. Cultured meat production fuelled by fermentation. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 2022;120:48-58.
11. Seah JSH, Singh S, Tan LP, Choudhury D*. Scaffolds for the manufacture of cultured meat. Crit Rev Biotechnol. 2022;42(2):311-23.
12. Yu F, Selva Kumar N, Singh S, Hunziker W, Ng SH, Choudhury D*. Isolation of primary brain endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytes on a microfluidic immunopanning chip (MIC). Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 2021;25:1-12.
13. Ng ET, Singh S, Yap WS, Tay SH, Choudhury D*. Cultured meat – a patentometric analysis. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2021;63(16):2738-48.
14. Kamalapuram SK, Handral H, Choudhury D*. Cultured Meat Prospects for a Billion! Foods. 2021;10(12).
15. Chan WW, Yu F, Le QB, Chen S, Yee M, Choudhury D*. Towards Biomanufacturing of Cell-Derived Matrices. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021;22(21):11929.
16. Yu F, Kumar NDS, Foo LC, Ng SH, Hunziker W, Choudhury D*. A pump-free tricellular blood-brain barrier on-a-chip model to understand barrier property and evaluate drug response. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2020;117(4):1127-36.
17. Singh S, Choudhury D*, Yu F, Mironov V, Naing MW. In situ bioprinting – Bioprinting from bench side to bedside? Acta Biomater. 2020;101:14-25.
18. Ong S, Choudhury D*, Naing MW. Cell-based meat: Current ambiguities with nomenclature. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 2020;102:223-31.
19. Lee E, Sun B, Luo J, Singh S, Choudhury D, Yong D, Yu X, Wang Q. Compact pulsed thulium-doped fiber laser for topographical patterning of hydrogels. Opto-Electronic Advances. 2020;3(6):190039-1–9.
20. H KH, Hua Tay S, Wan Chan W, Choudhury D*. 3D Printing of cultured meat products. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2020;62(1):272-81.
21. Eshkalak SK, Ghomi ER, Dai Y, Choudhury D, Ramakrishna S. The role of three-dimensional printing in healthcare and medicine. Materials & Design. 2020;194:108940.
22. Choudhury D*, Yee M, Sheng ZLJ, Amirul A, Naing MW. Decellularization systems and devices: State-of-the-art. Acta Biomater. 2020;115:51-9.
23. Choudhury D*, Tseng TW, Swartz E. The Business of Cultured Meat. Trends Biotechnol. 2020;38(6):573-7. (Cover page of the journal)
24. Choudhury D*, Singh S, Seah JSH, Yeo DCL, Tan LP. Commercialization of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives. Trends Plant Sci. 2020;25(11):1055-8.
25. Choudhury D*, Ashok A, Naing MW. Commercialization of Organoids. Trends Mol Med. 2020;26(3):245-9.
26. Ashok A, Choudhury D*, Fang Y, Hunziker W. Towards manufacturing of human organoids. Biotechnol Adv. 2020;39:107460.
27. Yu F, Hunziker W, Choudhury D*. Engineering Microfluidic Organoid-on-a-Chip Platforms. Micromachines (Basel). 2019;10(3).
28. Yu F, Choudhury D*. Microfluidic bioprinting for organ-on-a-chip models. Drug Discov Today. 2019;24(6):1248-57.
29. Yu F, Selva Kumar ND, Choudhury D*, Foo LC, Ng SH. Microfluidic platforms for modeling biological barriers in the circulatory system. Drug Discov Today. 2018;23(4):815-29.
30. Choudhury D*, Tun HW, Wang T, Naing MW. Organ-Derived Decellularized Extracellular Matrix: A Game Changer for Bioink Manufacturing? Trends Biotechnol. 2018;36(8):787-805.
31. Choudhury D*, Anand S, Naing MW. The arrival of commercial bioprinters – Towards 3D bioprinting revolution! Int J Bioprint. 2018;4(2):139.
32. Yu F, Zhuo S, Qu Y, Choudhury D, Wang Z, Iliescu C, Yu H. On chip two-photon metabolic imaging for drug toxicity testing. Biomicrofluidics. 2017;11(3):034108.
33. Eriksson A, Raczkowska M, Navawongse R, Choudhury D, Stewart JC, Tang YL, Wang Z, Claridge-Chang A. Neuromodulatory circuit effects on Drosophila feeding behaviour and metabolism. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):8839.
34. Navawongse R, Choudhury D, Raczkowska M, Stewart JC, Lim T, Rahman M, Toh AG, Wang Z, Claridge-Chang A. Drosophila learn efficient paths to a food source. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2016;131:176-81.
35. Yadav P, Choudhury D, Sadanandappa MK, Sharma VK. Extent of mismatch between the period of circadian clocks and light/dark cycles determines time-to-emergence in fruit flies. Insect Sci. 2015;22(4):569-77.
36. Anene-Nzelu CG, Choudhury D, Li H, Fraiszudeen A, Peh KY, Toh YC, Ng SH, Leo HL, Yu H. Scalable cell alignment on optical media substrates. Biomaterials. 2013;34(21):5078-87.
37. Choudhury D, van Noort D, Iliescu C, Zheng B, Poon KL, Korzh S, Korzh V, Yu H. Fish and Chips: a microfluidic perfusion platform for monitoring zebrafish development. Lab Chip. 2012;12(5):892-900. (Cover page of the journal)
38. Choudhury D, Mo X, Iliescu C, Tan LL, Tong WH, Yu H. Exploitation of physical and chemical constraints for three-dimensional microtissue construction in microfluidics. Biomicrofluidics. 2011;5(2):22203.

*Corresponding author – Dr Deepak Choudhury

Major Patents

1. A MEMBRANE HOLDING DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A TISSUE MEMBRANE, A METHOD OF PRODUCING A TISSUE MEMBRANE, AND A TISSUE MEMBRANE CONSTRUCT; Q. Bach, D. Choudhury, C.W. Wan; PCT/SG2024/050607, 2024
2. Device For Cell Culture and Method For Culturing Cells, M.W. Naing; Dan; A.A.Bin.Rahim; CHOUDHURY Deepak; US20200024561A1, SG Patent Application No. 10201702629Q
3. Method and System for Monitoring Activity of an Animal, NAVAWONGSE Rapeechai; CHOUDHURY Deepak; Adam CLARIDGE-CHANGE; WANG Zhiping; US 20150223433A;
4. Methods of Culturing Cells or Tissues and Devices for Cell or Tissue Culture, CHOUDHURY Deepak; ANENE- NZELU Chukwuemeka; Hanry YU; TOH Yi-Chin; LEO Hwa Li; NG Sum Huan. TW Patent App No. 01141718, WO2014074067A1 – (Technology licensed)