Researcher

Iain Bee Huat Tan is a Principal Investigator at the Laboratory of Applied Cancer Genomics in the Precision Medicine and Population Genomics programme at the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS). He is also a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist in the Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS); the Director of Research for NCCS’s Division of Medical Oncology; and the Director of the NCCS-Satellite Tissue Repository. Besides these roles, Tan is a clinician scientist and Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS, where he also serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member for the institute’s Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Programme.

Tan’s research focuses on the immuno-biology of colorectal cancer and non-invasive diagnostics. He has published widely in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and has obtained numerous individual competitive grants. Currently, he is also the corresponding principal investigator of a national collaborative grant on cancer liquid biopsies and a key investigator on several other national collaborative projects. For his research and clinical service, Tan received the National Youth Award (2014), the country’s highest award for youths.