She obtained her PhD in Microbiology from the National University of Singapore. She did her initial postdoctoral training at the National Neuroscience Institute of Singapore where she studied the disease mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease. Thereafter, she joined the laboratory of Professor Ana Maria Cuervo at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) in 2007 to pursue her passion in cellular quality control and how failure in this process contributes to neurodegeneration and aging.