Director, Singapore National Centre for Engineering Biology; Singapore Consortium for Synthetic Biology; Wilmar-NUS Corporate Laboratory; NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation. Dean's Chair in Medicine and Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Co-founder, Asian Synthetic Biology Association; Global Biofoundry Alliance. Advisory member, Synthetic Biology Africa; CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform; E.U. Horizon 2020-MADONNA; Synthetic Biology Open Language, among others. International member, U.S. Synthetic Biology Research Center; U.S. Engineering Biology Research Consortium, E.U. BioRoboost, among others. Recipient of honors and awards, National Research Foundation of Singapore Investigatorship Award; NUHS-Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Research Excellence Award; Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies Presidential Award; U.S. EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, among others. Chair, 15th Metabolic Engineering Conference; 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology. Editor and editorial board member, 15 biotechnology journals. Author of 120 publications and inventor of 15 patents, with over 300 media recognitions, in the fields of biotechnology and synthetic biology. Mentor of over 50 high school and undergraduate students, 20 Ph.D. students and 40 research scientists. http://SynCTI.org/