Meng How Tan

Dr. Meng How Tan received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and B.A. degree in economics from University of California - Berkeley, his M.S. degree in aeronautics from California Institute of Technology, his M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from NTU, and his Ph.D. in developmental biology from Stanford University. He then performed postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Jin Billy Li, Mylene Yao, and Wing Hung Wong. Subsequently, he joined NTU as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure in 2021. He is also currently the Assistant Chair (Students) in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. His lab works actively in the field of nucleic acid editing. To date, he has published multiple papers in top academic journals, such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Chemical Biology, and Nature Communications. He received the Outstanding Young Principal Investigator Award from The American Institute of Chemical Engineers – Singapore Local Section (AIChE-SLS) in 2019 and was named an EMBO Global Investigator in 2020.

Research Interests

Meng How’s overall research goal is to advance the field of nucleic acid editing. His lab seeks to (1) develop new genome and transcriptome engineering tools, including CRISPR-based technologies, for synthetic biology applications, and (2) gain fundamental insights into the ADAR family of enzymes, which are essential proteins involved in RNA editing.

Current Grants

• A Sustainable Bio-platform for High Quality Microbial Protein Production
• A Sustainable Bio-platform for High Quality Microbial Protein Production (SCBE-TMH_NEW)
• A Sustainable Bio-platform for High Quality Microbial Protein Production (SCBE-TMH)
• Codebooks for Data Reconstruction with Biological Applications
• Development of new prime editors for precision genome engineering
• Digital Single Cell Printing (HP)
• Digital Single Cell Printing (IAF-ICP)
• Digital Single Cell Printing (NTU)
• EMBO Global Investigator Network (GIN)