Edison T. Liu, M.D.

Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore (Biomedical Sciences Institutes)
Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore
President, Human Genome Organization

Email: liue@gis.a-star.edu.sg
Webpage link: http://www.gis.a-star.edu.sg/internet/site/investigators.php?f=cv&user_id=14

Dr. Edison Liu received his residency training in internal medicine at Washington University, St. Louis, and clinical cancer fellowships at Stanford University (Oncology), and at the University of California at San Francisco (Hematology). He then pursued post-doctoral studies as a Damon-Runyan Cancer Research Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. J. Michael Bishop. In 1987, he joined the faculty of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was director of UNC's Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer. In 1996, he joined the NCI as the Director of the Division of Clinical Sciences. In 2001, Dr. Liu assumed the position of Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore. His current scientific research investigates the dynamics of gene regulation on a genome scale that can explain biological states in cancer. Dr. Liu has contributed over 245 articles, reviews, and book chapters to the scientific literature. Dr. Liu also is the Executive Director of the Singapore Tissue Network, the national tissue repository in Singapore. Dr. Liu’s awards include the Leukemia Society Scholar (1991-1996), 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 his work in helping Singapore resolve the SARS crisis, and a Doctor of Medicine Sciences honoris causa (2007). In 2007, Dr. Liu was elected the President of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO).