The BSD to announce the appointment of T. Conrad Gilliam, Ph.D., as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Human Genetics, effective September 1, 2004. Dr. Gilliam joins the BSD from Columbia University, where he was the John E. Borne Professor of Genetics and Development, Director of the Columbia Genome Center, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Co-Director of the Joint Centers for Systems Biology.

Dr. Gilliam received his B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. in biochemistry from Clemson University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship as a Cystic Fibrosis Research Fellow in molecular genetics at the University of London under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Williamson, followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship as an Anna Mitchell Research Fellow in molecular genetics at Harvard under the mentorship of Dr. James Gusella. Following a one-year Instructorship at Harvard, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Neurogenetics in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Genetics and Development in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, where he has remained until now.

Dr. Gilliam’s research program studies the genetics determinants of common heritable disorders including schizophrenia, autism, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, and cardiovascular disease using novel genomic and bioinformatics approaches. This internationally recognized effort has produced over 100 peer-reviewed publications as well as numerous book chapters, editorials and reviews.

The Division welcomes Dr. Gilliam into its leadership ranks.

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