Prof Pierce Chow is Professor and Program Director at the Duke-NUS Medical School and senior consultant surgeon at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and the Singapore General Hospital. He is concurrently a National Medical Research Council (NMRC) funded Senior Clinician-Scientist and was the founding President of the College of Clinician Scientists, Academy of Medicine Singapore. Prof Chow was conferred the Chapter of Surgeon’s Gold Medal in the conjoint FRCSE/MMed examination in 1995, and after completing his surgical residency and PhD, he trained in liver transplantation with Professor Russell Strong in Australia. Prof Pierce leads the multi-disciplinary NMRC TCR National Flagship Program in Liver Cancer, which in 2022, has been successfully renewed under the NMRC Open Fund-Large Collaborative Grant. In 2020, he was awarded an A*STAR IAF-ICP grant to conduct a nation-wide 2000-patient cohort study to develop diagnostics for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma in high-risk patients. Pierce is also a faculty member at the Genome Institute of Singapore, the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute and Research Director at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology Singapore. Prof Chow was conferred the NMRC National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award in 2012 for improving clinical outcomes with his research on Liver Cancer.