Diary of a Taxi Driver

Mingjie Cai studied Biology at Nanjing University from 1973 to 1977. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1981. Following several years of working at the same institute and later in the Department of Biochemistry at Nanjing University as a lecturer, he enrolled into the PhD program of the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University in 1985 and obtained his PhD degree in 1990. From 1990 to 1992, he worked in the Department of Genetics at the University of Washington as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore in 1992 as a Principal Investigator. He had been an Associate Professor of the same institute and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore from 2000. He also served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Elsevier, Amsterdam) from 2003. He was unemployed from May 2008 and became a taxi driver in Singapore in February 2009.