Catherine Jia-Yun Tsai holds a position as a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Medical Sciences, University of Auckland. She graduated from National Taiwan University and received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. She then completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Auckland. In 2020, she won the Marsden Fast-Start Award, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Royal Society Te Apārangi Catalyst: Leader award.