Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of AGS is currently organised and provided through CTG.

	Prof. Joshua Lederberg <*dv_0*> Professor Lederberg is the Chairman of CTGs SAB. He is currently Professor Emeritus and Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Scholar at Rockefeller University. Professor Lederberg also represents the Trustee of the Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, the Carnegie Corporation, New York, and other academic, research, and environmental institutions. Professor Lederberg was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for his discovery of "sexual recombination" in bacteria (bacterial conjugation). He is Member of the U.S. Defense Science Board, which advises the Secretary of Defense on technological developments affecting the military and national security and he is Member of various panels of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Professor Lederberg continues to conduct laboratory research on bacterial and human genetics, and to advise government and industry on global health policy, biological warfare, and the threat of bioterrorism. Professor Lederberg has been the recipient of many awards, most notably the Eli Lilly award in 1953 for being an outstanding youth bacteriologist at the annual meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists (now called the American Society for Microbiology) in San Francisco; the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1958; and in 1989 he received the National Medal of Science, the nations highest scientific award.
	Prof. Sidney Altman Sidney Altman is Professor of Chemistry & Sterling Professor of Biology in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. A native of Montreal, he received his B.S. in Physics from MIT and obtained his Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of Colorado Medical Center. Professor Altman went on to do post-doctoral work in molecular biology at Harvard University and the MRC Laboratory in Cambridge and subsequently joined the Yale faculty in 1971. He served as chairman of the Biology Department from 1983-85 and also as Dean of Yale College from 1985-89. Professor Altmans research interests are in the broad subject of post-transcriptional RNA processing as a means of gene regulation. This includes a genetic and biochemical analysis of events in tRNA biosynthesis in E.coli and human tissue. In 1989 he was awarded the Nobel Prize, together with Thomas Cech, for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA. In addition, Professor Altman has received several awards including the Rosenstiel Award for Basic Biomedical Research, 1989, the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award, 1990 and the National Institutes of Health Merit Award, 1989 where he has also been appointed as an elected member. Professor Altman is currently a member of the UNESCO International Committee on Bioethics.
	<*dv_1*> Prof. Richard Myers Richard Myers is Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, and Director, Stanford Human Genome Center, Stanford University School of Medicine. Having received his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California at Berkeley he joined the faculty of the University of California at San Francisco in 1986, and moved to Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993. Professor Myerss laboratory uses classical and molecular genetics, genomics, cell biological and computational methods to understand the roles that genes play in a wide range of human traits, including diseases, behaviour and other phenotypes. In addition, since the beginning of the Human Genome Project, he has participated in the large-scale mapping and sequencing of the human genome, and, more recently, in genomic and gene sequencing of the genomes of other organisms. Professor Myers is a member of numerous committees concerned with human genetic diseases and the Human Genome Project including the Genome Resources and Sequencing Prioritization Panel (GRASPP) and is Chair of the Genome Research Review Committee of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Professor Myers is a member of the Biology and Biotechnology Program Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy and has received numerous awards including the Pritzker Foundation Award in 2002, the Darden Lecture Award from the University of Alabama, 2002, the Wills Foundation Award (1986-2001) as well as being a Searle Scholar (1987-1990).