Professor Tan is NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, and Adjunct Professor at The University of Melbourne Centre for Neuroscience, and University of Queensland Brain Institute. He is interested in understanding how the brain is assembled during development, and what mechanisms protect brain cells from death following brain injury such as trauma and stroke. Professor Tan has published over 100 papers and was awarded the Amgen Australia Medical Research Award (1997). He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Neuroscience (USA) and Experimental Neurology. Professor Tan is a keen swimmer and a member of the Brighton Iceburgers.
BDS (Mal) MDS (Adel) DPhil (Oxon) FRACDS
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
