Dr Dedrick Chan attained specialist registration in General Surgery in 2018, and is currently a Consultant with the Division of Colorectal Surgery at the National University Hospital.
As a Clinician-Scientist, Dedrick investigates the molecular underpinnings of colorectal cancer, and aims to translate novel findings uncovered in the laboratory to tangible improvements in cancer outcomes for patients. Dedrick is a Junior Academic Fellow with the Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He completed a PhD at the University of Oxford in 2023, and was funded by a National Medical Research Council Research Training Fellowship.
Dedrick's clinical interest and research focus revolves around colorectal cancer. As a colorectal surgeon, Dedrick introduces surgically-oriented interventions which improve cancer outcomes and the patient experience. Dedrick's research builds on this clinical work, and has implications for cancer intiation, proliferation and metastasis. He seeks to understand the role which somatic driver mutations play in phenotypically normal tissue.
Dedrick also studies the cooperative and competitive interplay between clonal populations in heterogeneous cancer tissue.
