• Professor and Deputy Director of the Signature Research Program in Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
• Research focus on molecular nutrition and role of lipids in brain and eye function and health. Discoverer of the Mfsd2a-LPC pathway.
• Doctorate in Genetics from University of Michigan and postdoctoral training in cardiovascular and lipid research at Columbia University. Held tenure-track faculty appointments at Columbia University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA.