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Dr. Lahn is also Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He came to the U.S. from China to continue his education after participation in the prodemocracy movement of the late 1980s. He received his B.A. in biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he did his doctoral research on mammalian sex chromosomes with David Page. He is co-founder of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Dr. Lahn's honors include the Merrill Lynch Forum Global Innovation Award, the TR100 Award from Technology Review magazine, the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award, and a Searle scholarship. He was named to Crain's Chicago Business magazine's list of rising stars under 40 in 2004 and listed as one of Esquire magazine's "Best & Brightest" in 2005.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
Bruce Lahn's mammalian biology lab is interested in two major research topics: (1) evolutionary genetics, especially the genetic basis of human brain evolution, and (2) stem cell biology. His other research interests include neurogenetics, bioinformatics, and developing technologies for high-throughput functional genomics.
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