Edison Liu

Edison T. Liu, M.D., is the president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, and was the president of Human Genome Organization, HUGO from 2007-2013.

Between 1997 and 2001, he was the scientific director of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Clinical Sciences in Bethesda, Md., where he was in charge of the intramural clinical translational science programs. From 1987 to 1996, Dr. Liu was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer; the director of the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology at UNC's School of Public Health; chief of Medical Genetics; and the chair of the Correlative Science Committee of the national cooperative clinical trials group, CALGB.

Liu is an international expert in cancer biology, genomics, human genetics, molecular epidemiology and translational medicine. Dr. Liu's own scientific research has focused on the functional genomics of human cancers, particularly breast cancer, uncovering new oncogenes, and deciphering the dynamics of gene regulation on a genomic scale that modulate cancer biology. He has authored over 300 scientific papers and reviews, and co-authored two books.

In his spare time, Liu pursues jazz piano and composition, and writes for the lay public on science, medicine and society.

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

President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory

2001-2011 Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore

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.

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

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