Tan Chorh Chuan

Tan Chorh Chuan
Tan Chorh-Chuan at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013
President of the National University of Singapore
Incumbent
Assumed office December 1, 2008
Preceded by	Shih Choon Fong
Personal details
Born	Singapore
Residence	Singapore
Alma mater	National University of Singapore
Profession	Professor of Medicine
Website	Office of the President

Tan Chorh Chuan (陈祝全) is President of the National University of Singapore (NUS), serving since December 2008. He is Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant at the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital (NUH). Currently, he also serves as the Deputy Chairman of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Senior Advisor to the Governing Board of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1983. Thereafter, he started his medical career as a renal physician. He went on to serve in several concurrent hospital and academic appointments from 1987 beginning as a faculty member with the Department of Medicine at NUS and Registrar, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine at NUH. Tan completed his PhD in 1992 with a dissertation entitled "Regulation of erythropoietin messenger RNA". He became a Senior Consultant with the Division of Nephrology at NUH since 1997 and a Professor of Medicine with NUS since 1999. He was promoted to Chief and Head of the Department of Medicine from 1997 to 1998. Subsequently, he became the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, NUS and also Chairman of the NUH Medical Board from 1997 to 2000. Tan served as the NUS's Provost and Deputy President between 2004 and 2007 and then as Senior Deputy President before assuming the appointment of President.