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Edward Holmes, MD
Edward Holmes, MD

    Dr. Edward W. Holmes is a distinguished professor of medicine, vice chancellor and dean emeritus of health sciences at the University of California, San Diego. In October 2006, Dr. Holmes became executive deputy chairman of Singapore's Biomedical Research Council and executive chairman of the National Medical Research Council. He also holds an appointment as the Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

    Dr. Holmes has engaged in basic biomedical and clinical research throughout his academic career and his laboratory has focused on the molecular bases of human disease. 

    Dr. Holmes has served on the Council of Advisors for the National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, and he served as chair of the Research Advisory Board of GlaxoSmithKline. He also serves on the Grand Challenges Explorations Innovation Review Panel for the Gates Foundation. He has received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University. He has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

    Schedule29 Mar 2024