In January 2026, Gavin Kuziel will join 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 as a PYP Assistant Professor. Gavin is a recipient of several awards including the NUS Presidential Young Professorship, NDSEG Research Fellowship, and UTokyo School of Science Scholarship. His laboratory will study the molecular mechanisms underlying botanical-microbe-host interactions across diverse ecosystems.

Gavin received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 2017 and his Ph.D. 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. Gavin is co-founder of Hasana Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing therapies for immune disorders.