Patrick TAN
 | Patrick TAN Senior Principal Investigator, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore Professor, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School Executive Director, Precision Health Research Singapore |
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Prof. Patrick Tan is Senior Vice Dean (Research) at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore and Executive Director of PRECISE (Precision Health Research Singapore) coordinating Singapore’s National Precision Medicine program. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at the Genome Institute of Singapore, Senior Scientific Advisor (Group Research) at SingHealth, Senior Principal Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, and Professor (adjunct) at Duke University, USA. 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. Other awards include the President’s Scholarship, Loke Cheng Kim scholarship, Young Scientist Award (A-STAR), Singapore Youth Award, Chen New Investigator Award (Human Genome Organization), President’s Science Award, Japanese Cancer Association International Award, Public Administration Medal (Silver), Exemplary Public Servant award, and NUS University Research Recognition Award. In 2018, he received the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Team Science Award as Team Leader. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP), the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), a Board Member of the International Gastric Cancer Association, Board of Editors for Science and Cancer Discovery, and on advisory committees for Qatar Precision Health Institute, and Riyadh Biotech City (Saudi Arabia).