Asst Prof Guan obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2009. She was a recipient of an EMBO short term fellowship during her PhD to work in University of Geneva, and further pursued her postdoctoral training in systems biology within a SystemsX.ch consortium, LipidX, in Switzerland. In 2011, she secured the competitive Ambizione career grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became a Group Leader of Lipidomics and Systems Biology in Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH).