Dr Jia Tong Loh received her PhD training from Nanyang Technological University under the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship. She subsequently did her postdoctoral training at Bioprocessing Technology Institute and Singapore Immunology Network, focusing on the immune mechanisms underlying diseases like fungal infection, inflammatory bowel diseases, influenza, COVID-19 and atopic dermatitis, for the discovery of novel drug targets. In 2023, she joined NTU School of Biological Sciences as an Assistant Professor, leading a research team to work on understanding of immune regulation in children during health and diseases. She has published extensively in reputable journals such as Nature Immunology, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Investigation, and was a recipient of the NMRC Young Individual Research Grant in 2018 and 2022.