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Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Pages 69-80
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This remarkable international project culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human genetic blueprint. Building on the foundation laid by the Human Genome Project, Dr.
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He has served on several international and national councils and commissions, including the Council of the Human Genome Organization and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. He currently serves as a member of the Health Sciences Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine.
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Before joining Boston College, he served as director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University from 1988 to 1998, was reappointed to this position from 2003 to 2005, and served as vice provost of Cornell University from 1998 to 2000.
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He subsequently conducted research at Princeton University, the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, and New York University before joining The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego in 1997, where he is the Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Fellow in Experimental Neurobiology.
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In addition to numerous research papers, he has also authored an article for Scientific American and several books, including Genetic Neurobiology (with Jeffrey Hall and William Harris) and Fly Pushing: The Theory and Practice of Drosophila Genetics, which has become a standard work in the field.
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Dr. Kahn has received numerous honors and awards, including the highest scientific awards of the American Diabetes Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the British Diabetes and British Endocrine Societies, the International Diabetes Federation, the American Federation of Clinical Research, and the Endocrine Society, as well as the Hamdan Award for Medical Research, the Rolf Luft Award of the Karolinska University, the Lawson Wilkins Award of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the Beering Award of Indiana University, and the Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine.
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Dr. Ordovas serves on numerous editorial boards and is active with several American Heart Association and NIH committees, including the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Program Projects Parent Committee.
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Dr. Palsson is also the founder and cofounder of ONCOSIS, a company that is focused on the purging of occult tumor cells in autologous bone marrow transplants; CYNTELLECT, a company that is focused on instrumentation for high-throughput screening and in situ cell sorting and processing; GENOMATICA, a company that is focused on in silico biology; and the Iceland Genomics Corporation, a company that is focused on tracing the genetic basis for common human diseases in the Icelandic population.
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Pharmacopoeial Convention, the National Dairy Council Advisory Board, and boards of the American Gastroenterology Association and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has worked on international nutrition programs in several countries, including Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Guatemala, China, and the Philippines.
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He received a doctoral degree in nutritional biochemistry from Cornell University in 1977 and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a health scientist administrator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of NIH.
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Rowena Matthews, Ph.D., is the G Robert Greenburg Professor of Biological Chemistry, a research professor in the Life Sciences Institute, a research professor in the Biophysics Research Division, and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.
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Dr. Schork's research focuses on human genetic and phenotypic variation, including sequence characterization of genetic variants and related bioinformatics analysis, the molecular physiologic impact of sequence variation, physiologic genomics, the clinical impact of polymorphism, pharmacogenetics, linkage and association analysis, and applied population genetics.
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