Professor Joseph Wing-On Tam is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of DiagCor Bioscience Incorporation Limited. Professor Tam is a research pioneer with over 30 years of teaching and research experience in the biotechnology and diagnostics sector. Professor Tam is a Visiting Professor at UCSF, Baylor Medical College and Medical College of Georgia, Scientist of National Institute of Health, Associate Professor and Honorary Associate Professor of Medical Faculty of Hong Kong University. He is the Founder and President of the Hong Kong Biochemistry Association.

With the support of UNESCO, Professor Tam organized and trained the first group of scientists in China and Asia Pacific Regions on recombinant DNA research in 1983. During his years of teaching and research at HKU, Professor Tam invented and patented the “flow-through hybridization technology.

Following his passion for Molecular Diagnostics, Professor Tam established DiagCor in 2006. He strives to influence and inspire the talent of Hong Kong’s next generation in biotechnology.