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Edison T. Liu
Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore
Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore
President, Human Genome Organisation, Singapore |
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Biosketch:
Dr Liu is the Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research) and Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore.He received his degrees (B.S. and M.D.) at Stanford University further oncology and molecular biology training at Stanford and at UCSF.Prior to starting the GIS in 2001, Dr. Liu was the Scientific Director for the Division of Clinical Sciences, National Cancer Institute (USA). Dr. Liu's scientific research has focused on the functional genomics of human cancers, particularly breast cancer, investigating the dynamics of gene regulation on a genome scale that modulates cancer biology. He has authored over 260 scientific papers, reviews and books. He is the recipient of a number of awards: Leukemia Society Scholar, 1991-96; Member, the American Society of Clinical Investigations (elected 1995), the Brinker International Award for basic science research in Breast Cancer, 1996; the Rosenthal Award from the American Association for Cancer Research, 2000;the President's Public Service Medal for helping Singapore resolve the SARS crisis, and a Doctor of Medicine Sciences causa,Queen's University, Belfast, 2007. He was elected as a Foreign Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO, 2008), and serving his second term as the elected President of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO). Dr. Liu is also the current Chairman of the Board for the Singapore Health Sciences Authority, health regulatory and blood banking agency for Singapore. |
