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Dr Iain Bee Huat TAN
Principal Investigator
Dr. Iain Tan is a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist, leading the colorectal cancer service in the GI Oncology Team at the Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore. He co-chairs Singhealth’s multidisciplinary colorectal cancer tumor board. Nationally, he chairs the Medical Oncology Exit Exam committee for specialist accreditation & is a member of MOH’s research training review panel & NMRC’s grant review panel. At NCCS, he is also the clinical chair for NCCS’s luminal GI cancer Comprehensive Research Program. Concurrently, he is a clinician scientist at Genome Institute of Singapore and an assistant professor at Duke-NUS.
His research focuses on metastases and drug resistance and immune-oncology in gastrointestinal cancers, with a special interest in non-invasive diagnostics & innovative early phase clinical trials. He has published widely, with many first or corresponding authorpublications in leading journals including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, Science Translational Medicine and Lancet Oncology. For his research, he has received the ASCO Young Investigator Award (2010) and ASCO Merit Award (2011) and Singhealth Distinguished Young Researcher Award. For his clinical service & research, he received the Singapore Youth Award in 2014, the country’s highest award for youths.
iain.tan.b.h@singhealth.com.sg
Singapore
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Key Publications
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Tan IB, Tan C, Hsu LY, Dan YY, Aw A, Cook AR, Lee VJ. Prevalence and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Migrant Workers in Singapore. JAMA. 2021 Feb 9;325(6):584-585. (Article; Published in Print)
Tan WC, Tan JYJ, Lim JSJ, Tan RYC, Lee ARYB, Leong FL, Lee SC, Chai LYA, Tan TT, Malek MIBA, Ong B, Lye DC, Chiew CJ, Chng WJ, Lim ST, Bharwani LD, Tan IB, Sundar R, Tan KB. COVID-19 Severity and Waning Immunity After up to 4 mRNA Vaccine Doses in 73 608 Patients with Cancer and 621 475 Matched Controls in Singapore: A Nationwide Cohort Study. JAMA Oncol. 2023 Jul 13. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.2271. Online ahead of print.
Tan RSYC, Lin Q, Low GH, Lin R, Goh TC, Chang CCE, Lee FF, Chan WY, Tan WC, Tey HJ, Leong FL, Tan HQ, Nei WL, Chay WY, Tai DWM, Lai GGY, Cheng LT, Wong FY, Chua MCH, Chua MLK, Tan DSW, Thng CH, Tan IBH, Ng HT. Inferring cancer disease response from radiology reports using large language models with data augmentation and prompting. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 Jul 14:ocad133. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad133.
D Ho, IBH Tan, M Motani Predictive models for colorectal cancer recurrence using multi-modal healthcare data
Proceedings of the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning, Pgs 204-213, doi: 10.1145/3450439.3451868
Tay SB, Low GH, Wong GJE, Tey HJ, Leong FL, Li C, Chua MLK, Tan DSW, Thng CH, Tan IBH, Tan RSYC. Use of Natural Language Processing to Infer Sites of Metastatic Disease From Radiology Reports at Scale. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2024 May;8:e2300122. doi: 10.1200/CCI.23.00122. PMID: 38788166; PMCID: PMC11371090.
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Achievements
- SingHealth Publish! Award (Outstanding), 2016, 2012
- NMRC Clinician Scientist Award, 2015
- Singapore Youth Award (Country highest award for youths), 2014
- SingHealth Excellence Award: Distinguished Young Researcher Award, 2013
- Goh Hak Su Professorship in Colorectal Surgery, 2023