Meet the Team
Prof Tai E Shyong
Prof Tai is a molecular epidemiologist who has been involved in most of the large genetic association studies that have identified variants associated with type 2 diabetes and related metabolic disorders around the world. He is also Director, Centre for Precision Health, and Chief Medical Officer of Precision Health, Singapore (PRECISE). In both roles, Prof Tai has responsibility for the implementation of genomics in clinical practice at the institutional and national levels, which includes the evaluation of outcomes and economics of these innovative pathways. He has also served as Head of the Division of Endocrinology. In that role, he has experience implementing care pathways across the National University Hospital that has given rise to improved outcomes at sustainable cost. Prof Tai oversees the work in the Precision Medicine Theme relating to the implementation of genomics in clinical practice.
Dr Eng Chon Boon
Dr Eng is the director of the Tissue Repository, NUH, and runs the Hospital-based Cancer Registry (HCR) at the National University Cancer Institute (NCIS). He is also the principal person-in-charge of tissue banks across the NUHS public healthcare cluster, co-lead of the Singapore Integrated Network of Biorepositories (SINB), an infrastructure network formed by academic tissue repositories in Singapore, and co-lead for cancer databases and tissue bank platforms within the Singapore Translation Cancer Consortium (STCC).