Affiliations

• Assistant Research Professor, LSI
• Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, UM Medical School

Education

B.Sc. In Biochemistry (First-Class Honours) (1996-1999).  Awarded by the University of Leeds, UK

Ph.D. In Structural Biology (1999-2002). European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany). The degree was also conferred by Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (Feb 2003).

Postdoctoral Training: Bridging Postdoctoral fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany (2003). Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (2003-2008)

Awards and Honors

• Pew Scholar (2011)
• Biological Sciences Scholar, UM Medical School (2008)
• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRCRF) postdoctoral fellowship (2004)
• Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) postdoctoral fellowship (2004) [Note: the award was not accepted due to parallel funding from DRCRF.]
• K. R. Porter Award at the 55th Meeting of the Society of General Physiologists on Molecular Motors, Woods Hole, USA, (2001)
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 4-year pre-doctoral fellowship (1999)
• Wellcome Trust student fellowship (1998)