Affiliations 

Platform Lead, Cancer Databases & Tissue Banks, Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium 

Director, NUH Tissue Repository, Research Office, National University Health Systems, Singapore   

Profession appointment  

Member of the Victoria Cancer Biobank‘s Strategic Advisory Group 

Profile 

Dr Eng Chon Boon is the co-lead of the Cancer Databases and Tissues Banks platform of the Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium. He is also the director for the Tissue Repository, National University Hospital (NUH), and runs the Hospital-based Cancer Registry (HCR) at the National University Cancer Institute (NCIS), and has an adjunct position in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the principal person-in-charge of tissue banks across the National University Health System (NUHS) public healthcare cluster, and the co-lead PI for the Singapore Integrated Network of Biorepositories (SINB), an infrastructure network formed by academic tissue repositories in Singapore. He is the Singapore’s convenor for ISO//TC276 Biotechnology and in the editorial board of “Biopreservation and Biobanking” by Mary Ann Liebert. 

He is a past recipient for International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) special service award (2010) and had numerous voluntary responsibilities within the ISBER over the years (Councilor, Chair of the ISBER Marketing Committee, members of ISBER Finance, Nominating, Strategic Planning, Program Committee), vice-chair of local organizing committee for the 2007 ISBER Annual Meeting in Singapore. Currently, he is also a member of the advisory panel for Biosample Hub, a not-for-profit company that helps industry requesters to partner with academic providers. He has numerous publications/book chapter/patent in the field of biobanking and had given talks, conducted biobanking workshops and consulted for various international biobanks over the past 15 years. 

For a list of biobanking activities and further info, please refer to the following: 

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chon_Eng/publications 
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/chon-boon-eng-889a408/?originalSubdomain=sg 
• https://www.nuhs.edu.sg/research/Research-Facilities/Pages/Tissue-Repository.aspx 

• Huipeng Li#, Elise T. Courtois#, Debarka Sengupta, Yuliana Tan, Kok Hao Chen, Say Li Kong, Clarinda Chua, Yongli Hu, Lawrence Wee, Lim Kiat Hon, Tan Wah Siew, Mark Wong, Paul Jongjoon Choi, Lawrence Wee, Axel M. Hillmer, Iain Beehuat Tan*, Paul Robson*, Shyam Prabhakar* (co-corresponding author) Reference Component Analysis of Single Cell Transcriptomes Reveals Cellular Heterogeneity in Human Colorectal Tumors. Nature Genetics 2017 (in press) 

• Suzuki Y, Ng SB, Chua C, Leow WQ, Chng J, Liu SY, Ramnarayanan K, Gan A, Ho DL, Ten R, Su Y, Lezhava A, Lai JH, Koh D, Lim KH, Tan P, Rozen SG, Tan IB. Multiregion ultra-deep sequencing reveals early intermixing and variable levels of intratumoral heterogeneity in colorectal cancer. Mol Oncol. 2017 Feb;11(2):124-139. 

• Ng SB, Chua C, Ng M, Gan A, Poon PS, Teo M, Fu C, Leow WQ, Lim KH, Chung A, Koo SL, Choo SP, Ho D, Rozen S, Tan P, Wong M, Burkholder WF, Tan IB. Individualised multiplexed circulating tumour DNA assays for monitoring of tumour presence in patients after colorectal cancer surgery. Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 19;7:40737. 

• Simoni Y, Fehlings M, Kløverpris HN, McGovern N, Koo SL, Loh CY, Lim S, Kurioka A, Fergusson JR, Tang CL, Kam MH, Dennis K, Lim TK, Fui AC, Hoong CW, Chan JK, Curotto de Lafaille M, Narayanan S, Baig S, Shabeer M, Toh SE, Tan HK, Anicete R, Tan EH, Takano A, Klenerman P, Leslie A, Tan DS, Tan IB, Ginhoux F, Newell EW. Human Innate Lymphoid Cell Subsets Possess Tissue-Type Based Heterogeneity in Phenotype and Frequency. Immunity. 2017 Jan 17;46(1):148-161. 

• Fukawa T, Chua BY, Chua JM, Tan EJ, Huang D, Qian C, Ong P, Li ZM, Chen SW, Mak SY, Elsa Mohan S, Wang RR, Lim WJ, Kanayama H, Lai JH, Chua C, Ong HS, Tan KK, Ho YS, Tan IB*, The BT*, Ng SC* Excessive fatty acid oxidation induces muscle atrophy in cancer cachexia Nature Medicine 2016 online 2 May 2016 2016 Jun;22(6):666-71. (IF 2730.3) *Co-corresponding author 

Affiliations 

Platform Lead, Cancer Databases & Tissue Banks, Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium;

Senior Consultant, General Surgery & Head of Breast Service, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH)