"What I can not create, I do not understand.", Richard Feynman

About me

Cheemeng received his B.Eng. degree (first class honors) from National University of Singapore and his M.S. degree in High Performance Computing from Singapore-MIT Alliance. In 2005, he started his doctoral research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University., where he evolved into a hybrid computational and microbial biologist. His Ph.D. thesis focused on implications of bacterial growth on antibiotic treatment and synthetic gene circuits. He published his research in journals such as Nature Chemical Biology and Molecular Systems Biology and was awarded the Medtronic Fellowship, the Lane Fellowship, and the Society in Science - Branco Weiss Fellowship. His career goal is to improve the rational engineering of synthetic biological systems by tightly integrating both experiments and computational algorithms. At Carnegie Mellon University, he works on the engineering of artificial cells that carry synthetic gene circuits, which have potential impact on drug delivery and bioremediation.

In the news

  • Socially acceptable, 2013 
  • Advertisement of Branco-Weiss Fellowship in IEEE, 2013

  • Interview by WPXI Regional Business, 2012

  • Carnegie Mellon team led by Lane Fellow Cheemeng Tan advances in iGEM competition, 2012 
  • New mechanism for antibiotic tolerance found, 2012 
  • Prestigious Swiss Fellowship Awarded to Lane Center's Cheemeng Tan, 2012 
  • Some Bacteria Zig When Others Zag, 2009 
  • Understanding A Cell's Split Personality Aids Synthetic Circuits, 2009 
  • Instant insight: Living computers, 2007