Dr. Polly Leilei Chen received her Bachelor of Medicine and completed her medical training in China before earning her PhD in 2010 from the University of Hong Kong. In 2014, Dr. Chen joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Principal Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, concurrently assuming the role of Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2021. Dr. Chen is an EMBO Young Investigator and an Asian RNA Research Ambassador. She currently places her research focus on functional and mechanistic investigation of RNA changes (particularly RNA editing, modification, and splicing) leading to cancer initiation and development; and the development of novel cancer therapies targeting these cancer associated RNA changes.