ProfessorPatrick Tam

PhD FAA FAHMS FRSB FRS

Professor Patrick Tam is the Deputy Director and Head of the Embryology Research Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute, and Professor in the School of Medical Sciences of Sydney Medical School at University of Sydney. Professor Tam was the Mok Hing-Yiu Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences of University of Hong Kong.

Patrick Tam is member of the editorial board of journals of developmental biology including Developmental Cell, Developmental Dynamics, and Genesis. He was a Guest Editor of CSH Perspectives in Biology, BioEssays and Current Opinion of Genetics and Development. He co-edited, with Janet Rossant, the book entitled “Mouse Development” published by Academic Press (2002) and, with James Nelson and Janet Rossant, another volume entitled “Mammalian Development” published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2013). He served on the scientific advisory board / council of Stem Cell Australia, RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery.  Presently he is the scientific advisor of the School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, and serves on Embryo Research Licensing Committee of the NHMRC. In recognition of his professional accomplishment, Professor Tam was awarded the President’s Medal of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Cell and Developmental Biology, and elected to the Fellowship of the Institute of Biology, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of London.