Dr. Meng How Tan received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and B.A. degree in economics from University of California - Berkeley, his M.S. degree in aeronautics from California Institute of Technology, his M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from NTU, and his Ph.D. in developmental biology from Stanford University. He then performed postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Jin Billy Li, Mylene Yao, and Wing Hung Wong. Subsequently, he joined NTU as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure in 2021. He was previously Associate Chair (Students & Continuing Education) in the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB) and is currently Deputy Director (Undergraduate) of the Renaissance Engineering Programme (REP), one of the Premier Scholars Programmes in NTU. His laboratory works actively in the field of nucleic acid editing. To date, he has published multiple papers in top academic journals, such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Chemical Biology, and Nature Communications. He received the Outstanding Young Principal Investigator Award from The American Institute of Chemical Engineers – Singapore Local Section (AIChE-SLS) in 2019 and was named an EMBO Global Investigator in 2020.