Victoria Lye-Hua Chan-Palay (born 9 October 1945) is a Singaporean-born neuroscientist who has worked in the United States and Switzerland.
[4][5] Among her four brothers and two sisters is Patricia Chan, who represented Singapore in swimming at the Southeast Asian Games in the 1960s and 1970s.
[5][6] As a young woman, Chan excelled at school in science, and herself represented Singapore in international swimming competitions as well.
[3] She was named a White House Fellow and an assistant to Secretary of Defense Harold Brown in 1979, making her one of the first Singaporeans to achieve such a high rank in the United States government.
[5] She later moved to Switzerland, where she served as part of the faculty of University of Zurich Medical School from 1989.