Tan Meng How
Senior Research Scientist
Meng How Tan is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as well as a Senior Research Scientist in the Genome Institute of Singapore at Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). Prior to setting up his laboratory in Singapore, he received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and a B.A. degree in economics from University of California, Berkeley, a M.S. degree in aeronautics from California Institute of Technology, a M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from NTU, and a Ph.D. in developmental biology from Stanford University. He also performed postdoctoral research on genomics and stem cells with Jin Billy Li, Mylene Yao, and Wing Hung Wong at Stanford University. Currently, his laboratory is interested in understanding how biological information hardwired in the genome of living cells can be permanently or transiently altered at both the DNA and RNA levels.
