Dr. Chenkai Ma received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and obtained his doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 2020. He is a research scientist in Health and Biosecurity, working on the novel diagnostic biomarker identification and in vitro diagnostic test assay development for a variety of diseases. He currently leads the translation of a new diagnostic assay for burn patients in children and is the Immune Resilience FSP Co-project leader of investigating T cell exhaustion on ex vivo models. His expertise is in bioinformatic analysis for genetic, epigenetics, gut microbiome, and transcriptome, including single-cell RNA sequencing along with machine learning models. He has extensive knowledge of molecular biology, cell biology, cancer biology, and human genetics.