Tan Bee Huat Lain MBBS, MRCP, PhD

Dr. Iain Tan is a Consultant Medical Oncologist and leads the colorectal cancer service within the GI cancer team at the Department of Medical Oncology, NCCS. He co-chairs the Colorectal Cancer Multidisciplinary tumor board and the centre’s GI cancer Comprehensive Research Program. Concurrently, he is a clinician scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*Star. His bench-to-bedside research seeks to improve patient care by intelligently exploiting the latest scientific advances. His research focuses on metastasis, drug resistance and immunotherapy in colorectal cancer, with a special interest in non-invasive diagnostic tests particularly circulating tumor DNA.

He is a key driver of genomic medicine in Singapore and the disease champion for colorectal cancer in Singapore’s POLARIS program which is developing the latest high-end molecular tests for Singaporeans. He has published widely in leading journals including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, Science Translational Medicine. He actively teaches specialists-in-training, young doctors and medical students and is a core faculty in both Medical Oncology (clinical competency committee) and Internal Medicine (research).