Biography
A/Prof Iain Tan is Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist and the Director of Research for the Division of Medical Oncology. He is a colorectal medical oncologist and NMRC clinician scientist-senior investigator awardee. His research spans translational research, clinical trials, and Public Health. He is a principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Applied Cancer Genomics at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A-Star, and faculty at CSCB, Duke-NUS. He is the clinical chair of Singapore’s colorectal cancer large collaborative grant program Colo-SCRIPT. A/Prof Iain collaborates widely with clinicians, scientists, and public health practitioners. He leads several data science efforts in Singhealth and is the platform lead for Tissue bank/Data & Population Health and Impact for Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium.
He is also the Deputy Group Chief Medical Informatics Officer (Research) for DGCIMIO (R), Singhealth. He supports GCMIO in advancing research informatics and accelerating the planning and implementation of clinical information systems, along with professional training and the development of clinical healthcare informatics staff to enhance clinical research activities. Additionally, he plays a crucial role in policy development and in overseeing the governance of clinical data within research. A firm believer in team science, together with his partners, he has published widely in top journals (e.g., Nature, Nature Genetics, JAMA, Cancer Discovery) in CRC, public health, and data science.