Ming Tatt Cheah is a biologist

Biologist

A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

 specializing in immunology

Immunology

Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

 and genetics

Genetics

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. Born and raised in Malaysia, Cheah attended Chung Ling High School

Chung Ling High School

Chung Ling High School is a boys' secondary school in Malaysia, located in George Town, Penang.-The school:...

 and later moved to the US, where he attended Yale University

Yale University

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 and became one of the few students in the school's 308-year history to graduate with an M.S./B.S. diploma in four years. Cheah was also a recipient of Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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's prestigious Future Scientists Fellowship for his work on RNA splicing

RNA splicing

In molecular biology and genetics, splicing is a modification of an RNA after transcription, in which introns are removed and exons are joined. This is needed for the typical eukaryotic messenger RNA before it can be used to produce a correct protein through translation...

, and his contributing research was published in the May 2007 issue of Nature

Nature

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Ming T. Cheah currently resides in Palo Alto, CA as an immunobiologist at the Institute of Stem Cell

Stem cell

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Biology in the Stanford School of Medicine.