He graduated with an A.B. in Biochemistry in 2002 from Harvard College, having worked through his undergraduate years in Professor Jack Strominger’s laboratory on the intracellular trafficking of immune molecules. He received his Ph.D. in Immunology in 2009 from Harvard Medical School under the guidance of Prof. Michael Carroll, where he worked on the role of microglia in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and continued this work on neuro-inflammation as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Tom Maniatis’s laboratory. He then trained as a research fellow on the Neurobiology of Pain in Prof. Clifford Woolf’s laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chiu and his laboratory aims to understand how symbiotic and pathobiotic bacteria within the commensal microbiota interface with the sensory nervous system to modulate pain and inflammation.