Prof. Dr. Chan Kok Gan is a distinguished interdisciplinary microbiologist. He studies microbial genomics, quorum sensing, quorum quenching, genome biology, biosafety law, intellectual property law. He is Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia (2017).  Prof. Chan holds double degrees in microbiology and law & PhD in Molecular Microbiology. He publishes >490 WoS–indexed publications, including premier journals such as Nature. He received Malaysia Toray Science Foundation Award, JSPS Award, >15 French Fellowships, UK Prime Minister's I2 Award, listed for 6 years by Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists (2020–2025) in both “Career” & “Current Year” categories. With citation >7,650 citations, h-index 83, he is ranked the World’s Top 0.1% Scientists by ScholarGPS; ranked First in “Quorum Quenching”, “Multidrug Resistant Pathogens” and “Genome ”by Google Scholar. He is ranked as First Microbiologist in Malaysia by Research.com. A novel bacterial genus and species, Chania multitudinisentens gen. nov., sp. nov., was named in his honour. Prof Chan is the leading expert in biosafety law, NGS, multi-OMICs (genome, transcriptome, methylome, microbiome, plasmidome, resistome, virome, metagenome, metabolome).