Gavin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI) translational research program at the National University of Singapore. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and his PhD as a National Defense Science and Engineering Research Fellow in chemical biology from Harvard in 2023 where he elucidated mechanisms of microbiome-diet modulation of host homeostasis. Post-PhD, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University following a tenure as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) with the University of Tokyo’s corporate venture arm (UTokyo IPC). He has received numerous awards including the NUS Presidential Young Professorship, NDSEG Research Fellowship, and UTokyo School of Science Scholarship. He is a co-founder and advisor of Hasana Biosciences.