Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Dr. Wai-Kit Chan graduated with First Class Honours for his BSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology in 2010 from University of Malaya, Malaysia. He then moved to Scotland to pursue his MSc by Research in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh followed by his PhD under the guidance of Dr. Tom Pratt studying the effects of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in brain development. After completing his PhD in 2016, Dr. Chan is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Initiative for Developing Brain at the University of Edinburgh. His research focusses on using human brain organoids to study the role of developmental genes in autism.