Rate My Professor Ai Peng Tan

Dr. Ai Peng Tan is an Assistant Professor (Clinician Scientist) in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and a Senior Consultant Pediatric Neuroradiologist at the National University Hospital, Singapore. She also serves as a Senior Consultant at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore, and holds the position of Principal Scientist in the Translational Neuroscience programme at the A*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential, where she leads the Neuroimaging Domain and spearheads research on the GUSTO birth cohort study. Dr. Tan obtained her medical degree in 2006 from the National University of Malaysia, completed postgraduate neuroradiology training at NUH, and earned her Master of Medicine in Diagnostic Radiology and Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2012. She received the Academic Medicine Development Award in 2016 and completed a Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Foundation Trust, including research at the Centre for the Developing Brain, King’s College London, in 2017. In 2019, she was awarded the European Diploma in Neuroradiology.

Her research focuses on the clinical translation of advanced MRI techniques, including diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI, for brain connectivity profiling in neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders, with particular emphasis on fetal, neonatal, and paediatric neuroimaging, radiogenomics, oncologic imaging, and craniofacial malformations. Dr. Tan is the sole neuroradiologist in Singapore actively engaged in mapping the developing human brain and works to integrate brain-network profiling into clinical practice while developing targeted interventions. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a member of the Singapore Radiological Society, European Society of Neuroradiology, European Society of Radiology, and Asia-Oceania Society of Pediatric Radiology. She is funded by the National Medical Research Council as a Clinician-Scientist.