Dr Joo Chuan Tong is a Senior Scientist at the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr. Tong has won numerous awards, including the MIT TR35 Award in 2008 and Singapore Youth Award (Science and Technology) in 2009, and is the only Asian on the Senior Innovation Advisory Board of Pfizer Inc, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company, at their world headquarters in New York, USA.