Professor Patrick Tan is a Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School and Deputy Executive Director of the Biomedical Research Council (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research). He directs PRISM, the Sing Health DukeNUS Institute of Precision Medicine, and was the Program Director of POLARIS, which established the first CAP-certified facilities for next-generation sequencing and the first clinically implemented NGS panel in Southeast Asia.

He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), a Board Member of the International Gastric Cancer Association, and a Member of the AACR International Affairs Committee. He co-leads the biliary tract cancer project of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), and is co-chair of the Singapore National Precision Medicine Program Steering Committee.

He has received numerous awards, including the SingHealth Investigator Excellence Award, the Japanese Cancer Association International Award and more.