FigureAsia 35 Under 35 · AI
Aengus Tran
Age 31 · Physician-founder and operating leader · Vietnam-born, Australia-based physician-founder with deployments reported across more than 40 countries
Rebuilding Clinical Imaging Around Specialist Artificial Intelligence
- Age at the edition eligibility date
- 31
- Field
- Clinical artificial intelligence for radiology and pathology
- Country or region
- Vietnam-born, Australia-based physician-founder with deployments reported across more than 40 countries
- FigureAsia U35 Assessment
- 91.6 / 100
Profile
Career and documented record
Physician-engineer Aengus Tran has turned a clinical frustration into a specialist AI company spanning radiology and pathology. The 2025–2026 record combines regulated diagnostic products, international deployment and an ambitious research model designed to draft radiology reports from images, history and prior studies.
Aengus Tran trained as a physician before moving into artificial intelligence, bringing clinical workflow rather than abstract technical novelty to the centre of his work. He co-founded Harrison.ai in Sydney in 2018 and built the company around a clear proposition: medical AI should support specialists at the point where diagnostic volume, complexity and time pressure intersect. Its radiology and pathology systems are developed by a multidisciplinary team rather than by Tran alone. The company says its products have reached more than 1,000 sites in over 40 countries, supporting 3,400 clinicians and more than seven million patients. Those adoption figures remain company-reported, but the regulatory record is concrete. By March 2026, the company said it held nine United States clearances covering 13 radiological findings, including clearance for acute-infarct triage on non-contrast brain CT. In June 2026, the research team released Harrison.Rad 1.5, a foundation model designed to draft reports using images, prior studies and clinical context. The model was explicitly described as research-only and not cleared for clinical use. Tran’s contribution is the institution he has assembled: clinically grounded, internationally deployed and increasingly capable of conducting foundational research alongside regulated product development.
FigureAsia selection
Why Aengus Tran is on the list
FigureAsia selected Tran because he is addressing one of AI’s least forgiving environments: clinical diagnosis, where usefulness must coexist with regulation, workflow integration and patient safety. International deployments and regulatory clearances give the work a level of external consequence that consumer demonstrations rarely achieve. FigureAsia attributes the products and research to the wider team while recognising Tran’s role in defining its clinical direction, assembling its operating model and securing the resources required to pursue both regulated products and foundational medical-AI research.
Verified work
The 2025–26 record
Verified contribution 01
In February 2025, the company announced a US$112 million Series C, taking disclosed capital raised above US$240 million.
Verified contribution 02
In March 2026, it received United States clearance for acute-infarct triage on non-contrast brain CT, bringing its stated portfolio to nine clearances covering 13 findings.
Verified contribution 03
In June 2026, the research team published Harrison.Rad 1.5 and a technical report; the company clearly designated the model research-only and not cleared for clinical use.
Field context
The work in its field
The company reports deployments across more than 40 countries and over 1,000 sites. Its work is relevant wherever radiology and pathology services face specialist shortages, although country-level utilisation and patient-outcome data are not publicly disclosed in a consistently auditable form.
Born in Vietnam and based in Australia, Tran represents an Asia-Pacific clinical-technology pathway capable of producing regulated systems for regional and international healthcare markets.
FigureAsia U35 Assessment
Assessment breakdown
91.6out of 100
Defining contribution
23.25 / 25
A completed piece of work, institution or system that materially changes what the field can do.
Demonstrated impact and reach
18.6 / 20
Observable adoption, scientific use, policy consequence or operational reach, with self-reported metrics labelled as such.
Personal agency and attribution
13.65 / 15
Evidence that the individual shaped the result, separated from team, employer and investor halo.
Technical or institutional originality
13.35 / 15
A new method, product form, research direction, governance mechanism or deployment model.
Durability and field-shaping influence
9.2 / 10
The likelihood that the contribution will remain useful beyond a single news cycle or model release.
Evidence integrity and responsible practice
8.7 / 10
The quality of the record, the precision of claims and the seriousness with which limitations and harms are addressed.
Asia–world relevance
4.85 / 5
A documented connection to Asia, impact on Asian systems, or clear importance to the region’s place in the international field.