Dr. Surinder Singh belongs to J&K State and was born on 02.05.1960 at Village Vijaypur,  District & Tehsil Reasi.   He has done his MBBS from Medical College , Jammu in the year 1985 and M.D.(Microbiology) from Medical College Rohtak, Haryana in the year 1988.   He did his senior residency in Microbiology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi  (1988 - 1991). 

He joined as Assistant Professor (Microbiology) at Govt. Sardar Patel Medical College , Bikaner in 1991 and moved on to Central Research Institute, Kasauli in August, 1992 as Assistant Director In-charge of J.E. Vaccine production.   He was Head of Central Drugs Laboratory for Vaccines at CRI-Kasauli from 1993 to 1996.   He joined National Institute of Biologicals under Ministry of Health & F.W. Govt. of India in 1997 as Scientist Grade-I and was promoted to the post of Dy. Director (Quality Control) in the year 2004.   He proceeded on deputation in 2006 to Central Drugs Laboratory (CRI-Kasauli) as Additional Director and continued there till January, 2008.   During this period he also had additional charge of Director, Regional Drug Testing Laboratory, Chandigarh from May-2007 to January-2008. 

 He took over the charge of Drugs Controller General of India in February-2008 and continued to work in the same position till 2nd November, 2011.   Presently, Dr. Surinder Singh is the Director In-charge of National Institute of Biologicals Noida which is the National Control Laboratory for testing of all Biologicals including Vaccines and Bio-pharmaceuticals.                                                                                   

Dr. Surinder Singh has 27 Scientific publications to his credit and has inspected 70 Vaccine and Biologicals manufacturing units in the country.  He was associated with WHO team in year 2007 as an expert for conducting National Regulatory Authority Assessment of Thailand.   He is also a member of WHO expert panels for vaccines and member of WHO Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines.  He is the chairman of Biologicals committee of Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission.