Dr Wu Ya Jun earned her medical degree in 1991 and spent seven years as a surgeon before transitioning to a 25-year career assisting in teaching and research at Department of Anatomy at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. She got her PhD at OUC in 2008. She oversees the EM Preparation Lab and Multiphoton Microscopy Core Lab, with research interests in neuroscience, cancer, and life sciences. She has co-authored 35 scientific papers and has been the Honorary Secretary for the Microscopy Society of Singapore since 2010.