Asst Prof Guan Xue Li is a Nanyang Assistant Professor in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Dr Guan obtained her PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2009 and was a recipient of an EMBO short term fellowship during her PhD to work in University of Geneva. She further pursued her postdoctoral training in systems biology within a SystemsX.ch consortium, LipidX, in Switzerland. In 2011, she secured the competitive Ambizione career grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became a Group Leader of Lipidomics and Systems Biology in Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). In 2016, she was awarded the Elite Nanyang Assistant Professorship to pursue her research on systems biology of lipid metabolism and functions in human health and diseases. Dr. Guan is also a member of the steering committee for the microbial lipids interest group within the International Lipidomics Society. Her laboratory drives development and application of lipidomics tools to elucidate the impact of alterations of host and microbial metabolism on outcome of human diseases and treatment response. The new insights in biology and the biochemical resources generated will contribute to modern medicine, particularly in drug target and biomarker discovery.