Prof. Patrick Tan is the Executive Director of PRECISE, overseeing Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) strategy. NPM aims to transform healthcare in Singapore and improve patient outcomes through new insights into the Asian genome and data-driven healthcare solutions. He is also Dean (Designate) and Provost’s Chair in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University and MD PhD degree from Stanford University, where he received the Charles Yanofsky Prize for Most Outstanding Graduate Thesis in Physics, Biology or Chemistry. Other awards include the President’s Scholarship, Loke Cheng Kim Scholarship, Young Scientist Award (A- STAR), Singapore Youth Award, Chen New Investigator Award (Human Genome Organisation), President’s Science Award, and the Japanese Cancer Association International Award. He has received the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Team Science Award as Team Leader, and the Genome Valley Excellence Award by the Government of Telangana (India). He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Association of American Physicians (AAP), the Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), a Board Member of the International Gastric Cancer Association, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), Board of Editors for Science and Cancer Discovery, and an advisory member for Qatar Precision Health Institute.