The Committee

Bioethics Advisory Committee

BAC Patron
Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam
Honorary Patron and Distinguished Senior Fellow
Singapore Management University
Former President of the Republic of Singapore

Emeritus Advisor
Emeritus Professor Lim Pin
Emeritus Consultant, Division of Endocrinology
National University Hospital; and
Professor of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Chair
Emeritus Professor Lee Eng Hin
Emeritus Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
National University of Singapore; and
Emeritus Consultant, Division of Paediatrics Orthopaedics
National University Hospital

Deputy Chairs
Professor Kon Oi Lian
Adjunct Professor
Duke-NUS Medical School

Mr Gregory Vijayendran
Senior Counsel and Partner
Rajah and Tann Singapore LLP

Members
Dr Chew Wei Leong
Associate Director (Genome Design) and Senior Research Scientist
Genome Institute of Singapore; and
Adjunct Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Professor Chin Jing Jih
Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (Clinical & Academic Development)
National Healthcare Group

Emeritus Professor Roy Joseph
Emeritus Consultant, Department of Neonatology
Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children’s Medical Institute
National University Hospital; and
Director of the Paediatric Ethics Program, Centre for Biomedical Ethics
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Associate Professor Lai Poh San
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore;
Deputy Chair, NUS Institutional Biosafety Committee; and
Chair, MD1 Tahir Foundation Building Research Safety Committee

Mr Charles Lim Aeng Cheng
Principal Senior State Counsel, Legislation Division
Attorney-General’s Chambers

Associate Professor Lim Tit Meng
Chief Executive
Science Centre Board

Dr Nazirudin Bin Mohd Nasir
Mufti
Office of the Mufti
Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS)

Associate Professor Ngiam Kee Yuan
Group Chief Technology Officer, National University Health System; and
Senior Consultant, Division of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery
National University Hospital and Alexandra Hospital

Professor Vineeta Sinha
Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore

Professor Patrick Tan Boon Ooi
Senior Vice Dean (Research), Duke-NUS Medical School;
Senior Scientific Advisor (Group Research, SingHealth);
Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Institute of Singapore;
Executive Director, Precision Health Research Singapore (PRECISE);
Professor (Tenured), Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School;
Senior Principal Investigator, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (NUS); and
Director, Duke-NUS Genome Biology Facility

Mr Tan Sze Yao
Director, Legal Office
Ministry of Health, Singapore

Ms Joyce Teo
Senior Health Correspondent
The Straits Times

Dr Voo Teck Chuan
Head, Office of Ethics in Healthcare
SingHealth-Duke NUS Academic Medicine Centre
SingHealth

Advisors

Emeritus Advisor

Emeritus Professor Lim Pin
Emeritus Consultant, Division of Endocrinology
National University Hospital; and
Professor of Medicine
National University of Singapore

As its first Chairman, Professor Lim led the BAC through a decade of great developments from its inception in 2000 up until December 2010. Given his valuable experience and outstanding contributions, Professor Lim has been recognised as Emeritus Advisor to the Committee.

Professor Lim was the longest serving appointee with 19 years of service as Vice Chancellor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Lim began his career at the University of Singapore in 1966 as lecturer and was later promoted to Professor, heading the Department of Medicine. He served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1979 to 1981 and the Vice Chancellor from 1981 to 2000. In 2000, he was named the first University Professor of NUS. Professor Lim is currently University Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS as well as Professor Emeritus and Senior Consultant at the Department of Endocrinology at the National University Hospital.

International Panel of Experts

Professor Kazuto Kato
Department of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy
Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan

Professor Kazuto Kato is the BAC’s IPE member for the Human Nuclear Genome Editing (HNGE) project. He has served as a member of various international projects such as the Ethics Committee of Human Genome Organization (HUGO), Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) group of International HapMap Project, Ethics and Policy Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Advisory Committee which develops global standards for governance and oversight of human genome editing. Since 2010, Professor Kato has been directing the Research Unit for the ELSI of Genomics in Japan to analyse ethical, legal and social implications of human genome research, particularly focusing on the whole genome and exome analysis.

Professor Graeme Laurie
Professorial Fellow
School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Professor Graeme Laurie is the BAC’s IPE member for the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) project. He is the Founding Director of the J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law and was the Chair of Medical Jurisprudence in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2019. He is also the current editor-in-chief of the Asian Bioethics Review. Prof Laurie has held numerous appointments including Chair of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council (2006-2010), and Chair of the Privacy Advisory Committee in Scotland (2005-2013). From 2009 to 2015, he was also an active member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee and the Nuffield Council for Bioethics. In 2019, he assumed membership of the International Council of Reference for Health Data Research in UK.