Dr. Alphonsus Ng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Global Health Steering Committee at the University of Utah. Alphonsus was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. James R. Heath at the Institute for Systems Biology and the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Earlier in his career, Alphonsus completed post- and predoctoral research with Dr. Aaron R. Wheeler in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, where he received his Ph.D. in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and B.A.Sc. in Division of Engineering Science. Alphonsus is the recipient of the Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence, Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, Terrence J. Donnelly Centre Research Thesis Prize, and Alexander G. Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship.