I obtained my Ph.D. degree from The National University of Singapore in 2004. During my Ph.D. training, I was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow and worked in the Department of Pathology in Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA in 2001. Thereafter, I was a Research Associate in the Department of Molecular Biology in Princeton University from 2004 to 2006 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Genome Institute of Singapore from 2006 to 2010. In 2010, I was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Pathology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Research Interests: My research interests lie in the mechanism studies and practical applications of stem cells, especially pluripotent stem cells. My research topics include: 1. Discover novel interplays between the transcription factors and epigenetic modifiers in stem cells with functional genomics and molecular biology methods; 2. Identify genes that drive lineage specific differentiation in pluripotent stem cells; and 3. Derive the disease specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) and exploit their applications on drug screening and cell therapy.