World Congress Gene 2009 : Organizers & SAB

Chair
Hailin Liu (Deputy Director General, China Medicinal Biotech Association, China)

Co-Chair
Ziren Xiao (Deputy Director General, China Medicinal Biotech Association, China)

Executive Chair and Secretary General
Xiaodan Mei (President, Dalian BIT Life Sciences, Inc.)

Chief Executive Committee Member
Wenling Zheng, Chair, South Genomics Research Center, Prof. South Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Deputy Secretary General
Zhaohui Wu (Assistant Secretary General, China Medicinal Biotech Association, China)
Yuefen Chang (Assistant Secretary General, China Medicinal Biotech Association, China)

Membership
Yong Wen (Superior, Membership Department of China Medicinal Biotech Association, China)

SAB & Honorary Members
Peter A. Altman, CEO, BioCardia, Inc., USA
Calvin B. Harley, Chief Scientific Officer, Geron Corporation, USA
Brian Johnston, CEO, SomaGenics, Inc., USA
Alan K. Smith, President and CEO, Cognate Bioservices, Inc., USA
Sun Lu, Executive VP, GeneCopoeia, Inc., USA
Donna Hudson, President, IEEE EMBS, 2007-2008, Professor, University of California, USA
Eli Zangvil, Vice President - Business Development, Compugen Ltd., Israel
Klaus M. Weinberger, Chief Scientific Officer, BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Austria
Ding, Yuan-Hua, Director and Head of Asia External Research Network at Pfizer America, USA
Hui Ge, President and CSO, AscentGene, Inc., USA
Bertil Lindmark, Global Vice President, Medicon Valley Alliance, Denmark
Pierre Casellas, Vice-President Discovery Research, Oncology Research Department, Sanofi-aventis Corporate, France
Erlinda M. Gordon, Vice President, Operations and Medical Affairs, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation, USA
Emily S. Winn-Deen, Vice President, Genetics and Oncology R&D, Cepheid company, USA
Jay Wu, President & CEO, VM Discovery, Inc., USA
Michael N. Liebman, President/Managing Director, Strategic Medicine, Inc., USA
Winston Patrick Kuo, Director, Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA
Jan Woraratanadharm, Manager of Scientific and Medical Affairs, GenPhar, USA
Yifu Zhou, Chief, Cellular Biology Section, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program, NIH, USA
Kuan-Teh Jeang, Senior Investigator, Chief, Molecular Virology Section, NIH, USA
Shuibang Wang, Staff Scientist, NIH, USA
Hongyu Zhao, Director, Yale Center for Statistical Genomics and Proteomics Public Health and Genetics, Professor, Yale School of Public Health, USA
Shamil Sunyaev, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, USA
Frank Slack, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA
Lynn Helena Caporale, Associate Director, Judith P. Sulzberger MD Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Kenneth Kun-Yu Wu, President, Health Research Institutes, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Scott W. Lowe, Professor, Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Deputy Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center, USA
M.Ilyas Kamboh, Professor, Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Acting Chair, Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh, USA
Peter Vogt, TSRI, USA
Roberta Bosotti, Bioinformatics Researcher, Biotechnology Dep., Genomics Unit, Nerviano Medical Science , Italy
Kenneth I. Berns, Professor; Director of the Genetics Institute at the University of Florida, USA
James F.Bishop, Chief Cancer Officer & CEO, Cancer Institute NSW Professor, Cancer Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
Jeff W. M. Bulte, Professor, Dept. of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Director of Cellular Imaging Section, Institute for Cell Engineering, USA
Artemis P. Simopoulos, Project Director, the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, USA
James Eberwine, Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Bin He, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
Bill Cushley, Professor of Molecular Immunology, Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
Daniel W. Pack, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, USA
Feng Guo, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Christa Muller-Sieburg, Professor, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, USA
Colin Collins, Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology and Cancer Research Institute, University of California, USA
Mark Burke, Interim Director of Informatics, David H. Murdock Research Institute, USA
W. Andrew Faucett, Instructor, Director Genomics & Public Health Program, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury, Director, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cell Culture and Genetic Engineering Core, Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Gunter Meister, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Laurie Zoloth, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Science and Society at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , USA
Alvis Brazma, Group Leader and Senior Scientist, EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, UK
Eleanor N. Fish, Canada Research Chair, Women's Health & Immunobiology, Director, Arthritis & Autoimmunity Research Centre, University Health Network, Division Head, Cell & Molecular Biology, Toronto General Research Institute, Professor, Dept. of Immunology, University of Toronto, Canada
Pavel Hamet, Canada Research Chair in Predictive Genomic and Director, Centre for Ecogenomic Models of Human Diseases, University of Montr¨¦al, Canada
Imre Berger, Group Leader, Structural Biology of Eukaryotic Complexes, Joint Appointment EMBL Gene Expression Programme Heidelberg, Germany
Joseph R Lakowicz, Director, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Professor University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Fazel Famili, Group Leader, Knowledge Discovery/Chef de Groupe, D¨¦couverte de Connaissances, Adjunct Professor-University of Ottawa, Canada
Steve Wilton, Head, Molecular Genetic Therapy, University of Western Australia, Australia
Vasant Honavar, Professor, Computer Science and of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Director, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, Iowa State University, USA
Lisa Lincz, Senior Hospital Scientist, Hunter Haematology Research Group, Australia
Chamindie Punyadeera, Senior Scientist, Department of Molecular Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, Holland
Goran Bondjers, Dean, Nordic School of Public Health, Professor, Cardiovascular Research , Wallenberg Laboratory, Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University, Iceland
Barry Pogson, Associate Professor, The Australian National University, Australia
Jean Peccoud, Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, United States
Werner Aigner, Researcher, Institute for Applied Knowledge Engineering (FAW), University of Linz, Austria
Kwun Fong, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, the University of Queensland, Australia
Sarki A. Abdulkadir, Associate Professor, Pathology and Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Scott M. Williams, Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, USA
Pak C Sham, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Genome Research Centre, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China
Richard Cotton, Professor, Director: Genomic Disorders Research Centre, President: Human Genome Variation Society & Co-Editor: Human Mutation, Convenor: Human Variome Project, Australia
Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Professor, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, Director, the Liver Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA
Patrik Brundin, Professor, Research Project at BMC, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Sweden
Vera Weihs, IDA representative of the DSMZ, Germany
Vangelis G Manolopoulos, Professor of Pharmacology, Director of Laboratory of Pharmacology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Dee H. Wu, Associate Professor, Section Chief, Technology Application Development and Translational Research in Radiological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, USA
Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, Dept. Psychiatry and Human Genetics and Center for the Study of Biological Complexity Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Naomichi Matsumoto, Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Fuat Akal, Data Management Expert, UNI ETH Functional Genomics Center Zurich , Switzerland
Mohammed Amarzguioui, Researcher, the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, Norway
Petr Svoboda, Head, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Joe Nadeau, Chair, Department of Genetics, James H. Jewel Professor of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA
Jianyu Rao, Associate Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology, Director, Cytopathology and Gynecological Pathology, Member, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer center, Member, Access graduate Program, UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine, USA
Ian Macreadie, Adjunct Professor, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Australia
Bor-Luen Chiang, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Win-Ping Deng, Professor and Director, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Ryuichi Morishita, Professor and chairman of the Division of Clinical Gene Therapy, School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan
Shunichi Kuroda, Associate Professor, Department of Structural Molecular Biology; Director, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Japan
Susanna Leong, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (SCBE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Raja Mugasimangalam, CEO, Genotypic Technology [P] Ltd., India
Tan Tin Wee, Dept of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore; Secretariat, Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network; Board Director, International Society for Computational Biology, Singapore
Stephen_Friend, VP, Merk, Inc., USA
Peter Buckel, CEO, SuppreMol GmbH, Germany
Charles Lieber, Professor, Univ. of Harvard, USA
Hongyu Zhao, Professor, Yale University, USA
Cthomas Caskey, EVP, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, USA
Jin-Xiong She, Professor & Vice Chair, Medical College of Georgia, USA
Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center,USA
Frank Slack, Assoc. Prof., Yale University, USA
Satya Prakash, Professor, BRA Centre for Biomedical Researc, Canada
Christine Betard, Executive Director, Global Strategic Drug Development Unit Quintiles Consulting, France
Chris Turck, Professor, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany
Klaus Stefan Drese, Professor, Institut f¨¹r Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH, Germany
Ruth Sofield, Associate Professor, Western Washington University, USA
Ryuichi Morishita, Professor,Osaka University,Japan
Zhongming Zhao, Assist Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Alvis Brazma, Head of Microarray Informatics Group, EBI, UK
Chen Guo-Qiang, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Fuat Akal, Data Management Expert, Functional Genomics Center Zurich