Robert H. Singer

Dr. Robert H. Singer is Harold and Muriel Block Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Program in RNA Biology, Professor & Co-Chair of Anatomy & Structural Biology, and Professor of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also Co-Director of the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center and Co-Director of the Integrated Imaging Program.

He pioneered FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) and combined it with high resolution microscopy to detect nucleic acids in single cells with single molecule sensitivity. Development of this technology provided the first description of mRNA localization, which led to a conceptual breakthrough in understanding how proteins are sorted to specific cellular compartments.