Rate My Professor Patrick Tan

Professor Patrick Tan is a faculty member at Duke-NUS Medical School, a partnership between Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). He earned a B.A. in Biochemistry summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1992 and an M.D./Ph.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2000. Tan serves as Dean of Duke-NUS Medical School effective January 1, 2026, and previously held the position of Senior Vice-Dean for Research at the institution beginning in July 2023. He maintains concurrent roles as Executive Director of Precision Health Research Singapore (PRECISE), coordinating Singapore’s National Precision Medicine program, and Senior Scientific Advisor for Group Research at SingHealth. Additional appointments include Distinguished Principal Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR), Senior Principal Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (NUS), and Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Physiology at NUS. Tan has been a faculty member in Duke-NUS’s Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Signature Research Program since 2006.