Professor Kanaga Sabapathy obtained his B.Sc (Hons) degree in Zoology from the NUS, and then his Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Immunology from the IMCB, Singapore, in 1995. His post-doctoral work was conducted at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna with Dr Erwin Wagner, studying the c-Jun-N-terminal kinase stress signaling pathway, using genetically-engineered mice. He moved to the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) in late 1999 as the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, and since 2013, is the overall Head of the Division of Cellular & Molecular Research, overseeing NCCS’ research activities. Professor Sabapathy is also the Research Director of the Academic Clinical Program in Oncology at SingHealth. He is a Professor with the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program at Duke-NUS, a joint Professor with the Department of Biochemistry at NUS and a joint Research Director at the IMCB. Professor Sabapathy is a Fellow to the Royal College of Pathologists (UK), and was recently awarded the inaugural National Research Foundation Investigatorship award (Class of 2015) in recognition of his work, to further his investigations on ground-breaking, high-risk research.