External Advisory Board Members

Man-Wah Tan, PhD

Vice President and Senior Fellow, Infectious Diseases and Host-Microbe Interactions, Research Biology
Genentech, Roche Group

Dr. Man-Wah Tan’s research and leadership experience span both the industry and the academia. He is currently the Vice President and Senior Fellow at Genentech Research and Early Development based in South San Francisco, California. He heads the Infectious Diseases Therapeutic Area as well as Host-Microbe Interactions and Translational Immunology research. Dr. Tan and his teams are dedicated to the discovery and development of groundbreaking and transformative medicines targeting challenging diseases and infectious agents. Their research delves into the molecular underpinnings of host-microbe interactions and the roles that the immune system and microbiota play in health and disease, with a particular focus on gastrointestinal and lung diseases, as well as immuno-oncology.

Prior to joining Genentech, Dr. Tan served on the faculty at the Genetics Department at Stanford University School of Medicine for over a decade. Dr. Tan received his MPhil from the University of Cambridge and PhD from Harvard University. His first Principal Investigator position, prior to moving to Stanford, was as a Harvard Junior Fellow at Harvard University and Assistant in Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research endeavors at Genentech have played a pivotal role in the discovery and development of one FDA-approved medicine and six other clinical assets encompassing a range of therapeutic modalities, such as monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and small molecules.

Ed Topp, PhD

ANR/INSERM Senior Research Chair, Priority Research Program on AMR
Research Director, Agroecology Mixed Research Unit, INRAE, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
Founder of the EDAR conference series and Co-Chair of EDAR8

Since July 2023, Ed Topp has held the ANR/INSERM Senior Chair, in France’s Priority Research Program on Antibiotic Resistance, and is Director of Research at the UMR Agroecology at the INRAE research center in Dijon. Before his arrival in France, he was a Principal research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). He was also the scientific coordinator (2016-23) of the Federal genomics research and development initiative on antimicrobial resistance [GRDI-AMR], a key element of the Canadian federal action plan against antimicrobial resistance. He holds adjunct faculty positions in the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario. Ed is an environmental microbiologist and chemist and conducts research on animal and crop production practices that are protective of environmental and human health. A particular focus is the mitigation of the development and transmission of antimicrobial resistance. Ed has co-authored over 325 peer-reviewed publications and has an H-index of 91 (Google scholar 11.2025). He co-authored the 2023 United Nations Environmental Programme report “Bracing for superbugs: Strengthening environmental action in the One Health response to antimicrobial resistance”. He is a past president of the Canadian Society for Microbiologists (2011), and was on the JPIAMR Science Advisory Board (2019-21). He was awarded the AAFC Gold Harvest award for Career Achievement (2015), and the Government of Canada Public Service Award of Excellence for Scientific Contribution (2016). He was elected a corresponding member of l’academie d’agriculture de France (2016) and was appointed a Fellow of the Soil Science of America (2022).