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Goh Hak Su Professorship in Colorectal Surgery, April 2023 - Current
SingHealth Duke-NUS Oncology Academic Clinical Programme
Senior Consultant, Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore
Research Director, Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore
Director, NCCS Satellite STR Biobank
Achievements in Research
Associate Professor Iain Tan Bee Huat is a Clinician Scientist (2 x NMRC CSA & 1x NMRC CSA-SI awardee), and a medical oncologist focusing on colorectal cancer. His research focuses on defining the molecular and biological subtypes of colorectal cancer and their impact on clinical phenotypes including transition from pre-malignant to invasive cancer, propensity to metastasize and response to immune, targeted and chemo-therapies. The emphasis is to exploit the unique biology of each colorectal cancer subtype, enabling development of tailored diagnostic and therapeutic tools for subtype-specific diagnosis, prevention and treatment. His cross-disciplinary research across clinical and scientific specialities is conducted in pre-clinical, translational studies and clinical trials. He has published more than 100 publications, (h-index 43) including first or senior/corresponding author publications in Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Journal of Clinical Oncology. He has obtained numerous individual competitive grants, corresponding principal investigator of a national collaborative grant on cancer liquid biopsies (IAF-PP, Calibre) and is the co-investigator, theme or platform PI of other national collaborative projects. More recently, his research is moving into public health research in cancer. He has research leadership roles in National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore General Hospital and Singhealth. Nationally, he is platform co-lead for tissue bank & databases (Platform 2) and population health and impact (Platform 5) for Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC) for Consortium for Clinical Research and Innovation, Singapore (CRIS), Ministry Of Health (MOH), Singapore. 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.
Educating the Next Generation of Clinicians and Scientists