Edison Liu is the current president of Human Genome Organization, HUGO

Human Genome Organisation

The Human Genome Organisation is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome. HUGO was established in 1989 as an international organization, primarily to foster collaboration between genome scientists around the world...

Education

1983-1987
Postdoctoral Fellow - Dept. of Microbiology, University of California at San Francisco, CA (Dr. J. Michael Bishop)

1982-1985
Hematology Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, Moffitt Hospital

1980-1982
Oncology Fellowship, Stanford University

1979-1980
Residency, Barnes Hospital - Washington University, St. Louis

1978-1979
Internship, Barnes Hospital - Washington University, St. Louis

1973-1978
Stanford University, M.D.

1969-1973
Stanford University, B.S. Chemistry, Psychology

Professional Appointments

Starting Jan. 2, 2012
President and CEO of the Jackson Laboratory

Jackson Laboratory

The Jackson Laboratory was founded in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1929 by former University of Maine and University of Michigan president C. C. Little under the name Roscoe B...

Present (resigned with effect 31 December 2011)
Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore

Genome Institute of Singapore

The Genome Institute of Singapore is a research institute in Singapore. It was established by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in 2003 and is located on the Biopolis biomedical city...

Present
Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Special Advisor to the Vice Chancellor

Present
Executive Director, Singapore Cancer Syndicate

Present
Executive Director, Singapore Tissue Network

2007
Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Institute, Japan

Nov 2006–present
Adjunct Professor of Johns Hopkins, Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine

Present
Adjunct Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Champaign-Urbana.

Present
Professor, Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine (COFM), National University of Singapore

1996-2001
Director, Division of Clinical Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bthesda, MD

1995-1996
Chief, Division of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine

1995-1996
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics.

1993-1995
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1992-1996
Director, Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer(NIH Designated)

1987-1993

Assistant Professor in Medicine and Oncology, School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Honors and awards

2008
Associate (Foreign) Member European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

2007
Doctor of Medical Science honoris causa - Awarded by Queen's University Belfast

2005
National Healthcare Group (NHG), Singapore, Distinguished Contributor Award

2003
Public Service Medal (National Day, 2003): for work in controlling SARS in Singapore (given by the Office of the President, Republic of Singapore)

2000
Rosenthal Award, AACR: for the discovery that HER-2 status determines response to adjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin.

1999
Elected-Board of Directors, American Association for Cancer Research

1996
1996 Brinker International Award for Breast Cancer Research - Basic Research Award

1995
American Society of Clinical Investigation (Membership)

1991-1996
Leukemia Society Scholar

1990-1994
Jefferson Pilot Award: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Junior Faculty Award for Research Excellence

1990-1993
Komen Foundation Award for Breast Cancer Research (funding fellow salary)

1985-1988
Clinical Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute, K08-CA01036-02, Preceptor: Dr. J. Michael Bishop.

1983-1985
Damon Runyan Cancer Fund Fellowship Preceptor: Dr. J. Michael Bishop (UCSF)

1974
Ford Foundation Fellowship for Intensive Studies in Chinese, Stanford University

1973
Phi Beta Kappa Stanford University

1972
National Science Foundation Fellowship in Chemistry 1972.

Hastings Center

Hastings Center

The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment...

Fellow

Committee and Advisory Board

2007-2009
President, HUGO (Human Genome Organisation)

2007-2009
Chairman, Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Singapore

2007–present
Keystone Symposia Scientific Advisory Board

2006
Board Member, National Healthcare Group (NHG), Singapore

2006
Deputy Chairman, Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Singapore

2005-2008
Member, NUS High School Board of Governors

2006
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Biomolecular Frontiers, National University of Singapore (NUS)

2005
Member, Search Committee for Deputy President (Research & Technology, NUS)

2004
FANTOM3 working group member.

2004
University Autonomy, Governance, and Funding Steering Committee (MOE, Singapore, Member)

2003
Bioethics Advisory Committee (Member), Singapore

2002-2003
National Health Group, Strategic Committee for Clinical Research (Singapore)

2002
Biomedical Sciences Executive Committee, A*STAR (Singapore)

2002-2006
General Motors Award, General Assembly (USA)

2002
National University of Singapore: Feasibility study team for the establishment of a multicampus university.

2002
Ministerial committee to re-evaluate Singapore’s secondary school system (Ministry of Education)

2001
President’s Life Sciences Committee (National University of Singapore)

2001
University Promotion and Tenuring Committee (National University of Singapore)

2001-2003
Genetically Modified Organisms Advisory Council (Singapore Government)

2000-2001
NCI-Ireland-Northern Ireland Cancer Consortium Governing Board (Member)

1999-2000
Chair, General Motors Cancer Research Awards Committee: Mott Award

1999-2001
NIH Committee to establish NIH graduate program

1998-2001
NIH Building 10 Revitalization Committee

1997-1998
NCI Breast Cancer Program Review Group

1997-2001
NIH Clinical Research Revitalization Committee

1997-2001
Co-Chair, NIH Clinical Center Advisory Council

1997
Chairman, NIH Committee on Extramural/Intramural Investigations in the Clinical Center

1997
Molecular Epidemiology Coordinating Group, NCI

1997
SBRS Policy Board, NIH

1996
AACR - Clinical Cancer Research Committee, 1996

1996
NCI - Clinical Trials Working Group, 1996

1996
NCI - Cancer Genetics Working Group, 1996

1996
NCI - Developmental Diagnostics Working Group, 1996

1996-1997
NIH Committee on the Recruitment and Career Development of Clinical Investigators

1996
Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee, NCI

1996
Faculty Search Committee, Division of Molecular Genetics

1996
Executive Committee: Clinical Cancer Program

1996
Advisory Committee: Clinical Cancer Program

1995-1996
National Action Plan on Breast Cancer - Biological Resources Working Group

1994
Faculty Search Committee: Cell Biology Program, Lineberger Cancer Center

1992-1994
American Society for Clinical Oncology: Program Committee

1990-1992
Lineberger Cancer Center, SPA personnel compensation Committee

1992
Faculty Search Committee Program in Molecular Biology

1990
Lineberger Cancer Center Planning Committee 14th Annual Symposium

1989
Lineberger Cancer Center Seminar Committee