According to Professor Paul Schimmel , co-founder of aTyr Pharma and fellow NAS member : " We are pleased to see this well deserved recognition of Professor Wong 's valuable contributions to computational analysis of complex biological data . As a member of our scientific advisory board , Professor Wong has provided invaluable guidance for building aTyr 's platform of naturally occurring , therapeutic splice variants of human tRNA synthetases.His work with genomics data has accelerated understanding of biology and paved the way for significant health advances . " aTyr Pharma congratulates Professor Wong on this well deserved honor .