Associate Professor Saumya Jamuar is a Senior Consultant in the Genetics Service at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He serves as the Director of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine and Lead Principal Investigator of the Singapore Childhood Undiagnosed Disease Programme. He was the Inaugural Head of SingHealth Duke-NUS Genomic Medicine Centre. He is the Chair of Chapter of Genomic Medicine, Academy of Medicine, Singapore and co-chair, Genetic and Genomic Testing and Research Review Group, Bioethics Advisory Committee.

After graduating from National University of Singapore, Assoc Prof Jamuar completed his Paediatric training at SingHealth, followed by his Clinical Genetics Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Christopher A. Walsh Lab at Harvard Medical School. He is actively involved in research and has presented at both local and international meetings and published in top tier journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Genetics. His research areas include genetic disorders, precision medicine and neurodevelopmental genetics. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the American Epilepsy Society meeting in 2013 and is also the recipient of the 2015 SingHealth Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2018 SingHealth Outstanding Publish Award, 2021 National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Award and 2024 GCEO Outstanding Researcher Award.

He is actively involved in teaching and supervision at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and is an active mentor for medical students and residents.