John Tan

John Tan is director of informatics and operations at Nimble Therapeutics. He manages and contributes to Nimble’s academic research collaborations, partner projects, data management, data analysis, and data-related software development efforts, as well as Nimble’s accounting practices and reporting systems.

John earned a PhD in biological sciences from the University of Notre Dame and a BS in computer science – information systems from the University of North Carolina – Asheville. Prior to joining Nimble, John was a Senior Scientist at Roche in their R&D and Innovation groups; at the University of Notre Dame, he was a research assistant professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health and managing director of the genomics core facility. John has contributed as co-author to manuscripts published in Nature, Science, PNAS, and The Lancet, among other scientific journals.

John enjoys traveling the world to visit family, hobby programming, keeping up with tech trends, and being entertained by his daughters’ silly jokes.