A/Prof Patrick Tan Principal Investigator Laboratory of Genomic Oncology Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore

Dr. Patrick Tan holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and a Group Leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore. He is a Program Leader in Genomic Oncology at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore and a Research Associate Professor in the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University, USA. His research focuses the application of genomics to cancer and infectious disease. He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University and MD PhD degree from Stanford University, where he received the Charles Yanofsky prize for Most Outstanding Graduate Thesis in Physics, Biology or Chemistry. Locally, he has received the President’s Scholarship, Loke Cheng Kim foundation scholarship, Young Scientist Award (A-STAR), Singapore Youth Award (twice), and the Singhealth Investigator Excellence Award.

He is an editorial board member of the journals BMC Medical Genomics, PLOS One, and SGH Proceedings. He is a member of the Local Review Panel (LRP) to the National Medical Research Council and Biomedical Research Council, a member of Specialists Accreditation Board, Translational Medicine, and Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), a national body that provides advice to the Singapore government on ethical issues related to biomedical research.

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