Our People

Patron

Professor Sir Munir Primohamed, KBE, MD, PhD
University of Liverpool, UK

Board of Directors

Professor Dhavendra Kumar, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPCH, FACMG
Queen Mary University of London, UK
CEO/ Medical Director

Dr. Anju Kumar, FRCOG
Executive Director

Vacant
Non-Executive Director

Vacant
Non-Executive Director

Vacant
Non-Executive Director

Honorary Fellows

UNITED KINGDOM

Professor Dhavendra Kumar
Founding Fellow,
*William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK
*Division of Cancer & Genetics, Cardiff University School of Medicine, UK
*Genomic Policy Unit University of South Wales, UK

Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, KBE, FRCP PhD
Director- WHRI,
Queen Mary University of London
Chief Scientist, Genomics England

Professor Patricia Munroe, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine
WHRI, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Professor Perry Elliott, MD FRCP FESC
Professor of Cardiology
Director of Cardiovascular Research
University College London, UK
Consultant In charge- Bart’s Inherited Cardiac Diseases Unit

Prof. Ruth Chadwick
Professor of BioEthics & Law
Cardiff University

Prof. Doug Higgs,
Director- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
The University of Oxford

Prof. William Newman, FRCP, PhD
Consultant Clinical Genetics
Director- Centre for Genomic Medicine
University of Manchester

Prof. Shirley Hodgson, DM FRCP
Professor Emeritus- Cancer Genetics
St Georges Hospital Medical School
University of London

Prof. Eamon Maher, DM, FRCP
Professor of Medical Genetics,
Department of Medical Genetics
Addenbrooke’s Hospital
University of Cambridge, UK

Prof. Sir John Burn, KBE, MD, FRCP
Formerly Director- Institute of Genetic Medicine
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

United States of America

Dr. Eric Green
Director- National Institute of Human Genome Research
NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Prof. Muin Khoury
Director- Population and Public Health Genomics
Center for Disease Control
Atlanta, GA

Prof. Teri Monolio,
Deputy Director,
National Institute of Human Genome Research,
NIH, Bethesda

Prof. Aravinda Chakravorty
Director- Centre for Complex Diseases Genomics,
McKusick-Nathan Institute of Genetic Medicine,
Johns Hopkins Univ. Medical School,
Baltimore, MD, USA

Professor Charles Lee
President- HUGO International
Director- Genomic Medicine
The Jackson Laboratory
Connecticut, USA

CANADA

Prof. David Chitayat, MD PhD
Clinical Geneticist
Director- Fetal Medicine
Hospital of Sick Children,
University of Toronto
Ontario

Professor Michael Hayden, MD PhD
Professor of Medical Genetics
Director- Center for Genomic Medicine
University of British Columbia

AUSTRALIA

Prof. Clara Gaff, PhD
Director- Victoria Genetic Counselling Service
Co-Direcor- Australia Genomics
University of Melbourne,
Victoria

PHILLIPINNES

Prof. Carmencita Padilla, MD PhD
Director- Human Genetics
National Institute of Health
University of Manila

THE NETHERLANDS

Professor Han Brunner, MD PhD
Director- Centre for Human Genetics & Genomics
University Hospital of Nijmegan,

Professor Gert Ommen, MD PhD
Formerly Director Human Genetics
University of Leiden

BELGIUM

Prof. Bart Loeys, MD PhD
Director- Medical Genetics
University Hospital of Antwerp

Prof. Julie de Backer, MD PhD
Head- Centre for Medical Genetics
University Hospital of Ghent

SWITZERLAND

Prof. Stylianos Antonarakis, MD DSc
Head- Department of Medical Genetics
University of Geneva
Switzerland

MEXICO

Prof. Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchen
Public Health Sciences
Harvard School of Medicine Boston, USA
Formerly- Director Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City

SOUTH AFRICA

Prof. Raj Ramesar
Head- Human Genetics
University of Cape Town
South Africa

Prof. Michelle Ramsay, PhD
Director- Human Genetics
University of Wittwatersand,
Johannesburg

INDIA

Prof. Ishwar C Verma
Director- Centre for Genetic Medicine
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar
New Delhi, India

Prof. Samir Brahmachari
Former Director General CSIR,
Director- Institute of Genomics & Integrated Biology (IGBI),
Delhi, India

Prof. Partha Majumdar
Formerly Director- Institute of Bio-Medical Genomics
Kalyani, KolKatta,
West Bengal, India

Prof. Shubha Phadke, MD, DM
Head- Department of Medical Genetics
Sanjay Gandhi PGI Medical Sciences
Lucknow, UP

Prof. Ajay Behl, MD, FRCP
Professor of Cardiology
PGIMER, Chandigarh

Prof. Sharat Chandra, PhD
Director- Centre for Human Genetics
Bangalore, Karnataka

Prof. Rajiv Sarin, MD, PhD
Consultant/ Director- Cancer Genetics
ACTREC & Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital,
Mumbai, Maharashtra

Prof. Madhulika Kabra, DM
Head of Clinical Genetics Unit,
AIIMS, New Delhi

SRI LANKA

Prof. Vajira Dissanayke, MBBS, PhD
Director/ Head- Human Genetics
University of Colombo

 

Honorary Members
To be confirmed
Nominations / Applications are invited