ABOUT G2MC
Leadership Team
PRESIDENT & CEO
CO-CHAIRS
ADVISORS
Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Chair in Medical Genetics, Professor of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA – Full Bio
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Dean of the Faculty and Senior Professor (Chair) in the Department of Anatomy, Genetics, & Biomedical Informatics of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka – Full Bio
Vice President, Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA – Full Bio
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) for England, England – Full Bio
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) LIAISON
Director, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), USA – Full Bio
STEERING COMMITTEE
Professor, University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland – Full Bio
Professor of Molecular Pathology, Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Kuwait University, Kuwait – Full Bio
Associate Director, Learning and Training, Wellcome Connecting Science, United Kingdom – Full Bio
Consultant Biochemist, Dhulikhel Hospital; Assistant Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Kathmandu University, School of Medical Sciences, Nepal – Full Bio
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, USA – Full Bio
Lecturer, Human Genetics Unit and Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka – Full Bio
Research Assistant Professor, Head of the Biomarker Discovery & Translational Research Laboratory, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece – Full Bio
Program Director and Epidemiologist, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health, USA – Full Bio
Clinical Geneticist and Head of Molecular Lab, Civil Service Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal – Full Bio
Alexandra Pickard
Deputy Director, Genomics, National Health Service (NHS) England
Adjunct Professor, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia – Full Bio
Director, Clalit National Cancer Control Center and National Personalized Medicine Program, Israel – Full Bio
Professor in Medical Genetics, Department of Anatomy, Genetics & Biomedical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka – Full Bio
Workforce Education project officer, Australian Genomics; Lead, Genomics Education and Consumer Involvement, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; Conjoint Lecturer, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia – Full Bio
Head, Genetics & Metabolism Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia – Full Bio
ABOUT IHCC
Leadership Team
CO-CHAIRS
- Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health
- Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
- Biography: All of US Research Program
- Professor in the Division of Human Genetics at the National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits),
- Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the Wits University
- Project Leader of the AWI-Gen Consortium Study, part of H3Africa, South Africa
IHCC National Institutes of Health (NIH) LIAISON
- Program Director and Epidemiologist, Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health
- Biography: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Executive Committee is comprised of IHCC Co-Chairs and the following members:
- Professor and head of the Computational Biology (CBIO) division at the University of Cape Town
- Principal investigator of H3ABioNet, a Pan African bioinformatics network for H3Africa, South Africa
- Professor, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- Assistant Professor, Human Genetics Program, ICBM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile
- Department of Basic-Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile
- Biography: ResearchGate
STEERING COMMITTEE
The Steering Committee is comprised of the IHCC Executive Committee, Working Group leads, and the following members:
- Director of Qatar Biobank, Qatar Foundation
- Biography: Qatar Foundation
- Neuropsychologist and Epidemiologist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
- Senior Scientist and Senior Data Manager, Dementias Platform UK (DPUK)
- Biography: University of Oxford
- Staff Scientist, Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH
- Biography: NIH National Cancer Institute
- Deputy Director, Advanced Center of Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS)
- Director, Ph.D. Program in Epidemiology Department of Public Health/ School of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Director of the MAUCO cohort, Chili
- Faculty member and the Population Science Lead at the Africa Health Research Institute and the principal investigator of its Population Intervention Program (PIP)
- Honorary professor at the University of Limpopo
- Director of the SAPRIN cohort, South Africa
- Deputy of Technology and Research at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education
- Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Director of the Digestive Diseases Research Institute at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Director of the PERSIAN Cohort and the Golestan Cohort, Iran
WORKING GROUP LEADS
Data Standards and Infrastructure Working Group
- Team Leader, EGA and Archive Infrastructure, EMBL-EBI
- Biography: EMBL-EBI
- Director, Computational Biology, OICR
- Senior Investigator, OICR
- Executive Scientific Director, Ontario Health Study
- National Scientific Director, Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health
- Principal Investigator & Director, Genome Canada Canadian Data Integration Centre
- Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
- Adjunct Professor, CHUM, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal
- Biography: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Scientific Strategy and Cohorts Enhancement Working Group
- Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
- Biography: University of Cambridge
- Director, Center for Applied Genomics, The Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Biography: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
About GGMC
Leadership Team
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair & President
Governance Committee Member
Development Committee Member
VACANT
Treasurer
ADVISORY BOARD
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
MISSION: Comprised of select BoD and Advisory Board members, the GGMC Development Committee is tasked with developing the strategies to sustain and grow the GGMC organization and to provide a platform of value to our programmatic members, partners, and supporters.
GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
MISSION: Comprised of select BoD and Advisory Board members, the GGMC Governance committee is tasked with the review and evaluation of current and new members of the GGMC leadership, inclusive of the programs under its oversight.
