Prof. Harmit Singh Malik is Professor and co-Associate Director in the Division of Basic Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He earned his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1993 and Ph.D. degree in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1999. Prof. Mallik then moved to Seattle to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (the “Hutch”), to do his postdoc.