Professor Chow is Senior Consultant and Co-Director (Surgical) of the Comprehensive Liver Cancer Clinic at National Cancer Centre Singapore, Senior Consultant Surgeon in Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and Transplant Surgery at Singapore General Hospital, Professor and Course Director at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore.

Professor Chow was the Chapter of Surgeon’s Gold Medallist at the conjoint Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh/MMed (Surgery) examination in 1994 and subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in Liver Transplantation in Australia in 2000. In 2002 he was awarded his PhD.

In addition to managing a busy HPB surgical oncology service, Professor Chow has researched extensively on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). He leads collaborative research on the genomic heterogeneity of HCC and applications in precision medicine. He co-founded the Asia-Pacific Hepatocellular Carcinoma Trials Group in 1997 and has been the protocol chair of 7 multi-national prospective studies. In 2012 the National Medical Research Council Singapore conferred him the National Outstanding Clinician-Scientist Award for improving clinical outcomes of patients with his research on Liver Cancer.

Professor Chow was awarded the NMRC Translational-Clinical Research Grant for the Flagship Program in Liver Cancer in 2016 and has commenced the multi-national PLANET study (Precision Medicine in Liver Cancer Asia-Pacific Network). In 2017 he was awarded the country’s 1st IAF-PP grant from BMRC to develop the multi-institutional PuRPOSE Program to develop a clinically reliable and robust patient-specific diagnostic and predictive platform to improve treatment of liver cancer. Taken together, these studies will bring precision medicine to individuals with HCC and initiate new multi-national clinical studies across the Asia Pacific to advance treatment strategies for HCC.