Bio
Dr. Iain Tan is a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist, leading the colorectal cancer service (5 consultants) in Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore. He is the director of research for the division of Medical Oncology (52 consultants) and the director of the NCCS-Satellite Tissue Repository. He is a clinician scientist (twice NMRC CSA awardee) and associate professor at Duke-NUS and faculty member and principal investigator of the laboratory of applied cancer genomics in the Precision Medicine And Population Genomics program at Genome Institute of Singapore, A-Star and adjunct faculty at Cancer & Stem Cell Biology Program at Duke-NUS. Nationally, he is platform lead for tissue bank & databases for Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC) for CRIS, MOH, Singapore. He has published widely with over 90 publications (h-index 39) including first or senior/corresponding author publications in Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Nature, JAMA. He has obtained numerous individual competitive grants (more than $6 million), is the corresponding principal investigator of a national collaborative grant on cancer liquid biopsies (IAF-PP, Calibre, $15 million) and is the co-investigator, theme or platform PI of other national collaborative projects ($43 million). He mentors multiple junior clinician scientists (mentor for 2 NMRC transition awardees) post-docs, PhD students including clinician scientist PhD students. His research focuses on the immuno-biology of colorectal cancer and non-invasive diagnostics. For his research, he has received the ASCO Young Investigator Award (2010) and ASCO Merit Award (2011) and National Youth Award (2014), the country’s highest award for youths. He is blessed with a very loving and supportive family and 2 beautiful daughters and a playful son!
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Member, Royal Coll of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians, UK, Singapore
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore