Dr Dang Thuy Tram is Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and a Fellow of the Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education (ARISE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Dr Dang received her B.Sc degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA) and Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), both in Chemical Engineering. She also conducted her postdoctoral training as a Controlled Release Society fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (USA). Prior to joining NTU, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), Singapore. She was the recipient of the A*STAR Singapore National Science Fellowship, MIT Edward Clark Presidential Fellowship and the Controlled Release Society Sung Wan Kim postdoctoral fellowship. Dr Dang has served as the Associate Editors of the journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research and Journal of Biomaterials Application. Dr Dang’s research leverages fundamental understanding of the interaction between biomaterials and the immune systems to design novel immuno-modulatory biomaterials and therapeutic delivery systems for the treatment of diabetes and chronic inflammatory diseases.