Dr. Fan received his Ph.D. in chemistry from University of California at Berkeley. His graduate work involves the development of novel nanofluidic transistors for single molecule detection and ion transport control. Afterwards, he went on to take a postdoctoral associate position in Professor Jim Heath’s laboratory in NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center at CalTech. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation GCE award and others. Dr. Fan's research focuses on combining single-cell analysis technology and systems biology to study cell-cell communication and cellular heterogeneity in human cancers and the immune system. Ultimately, the goal is to accelerate the translational development of these tools for informative immune monitoring or cancer diagnosis.