Prof. Philip Hieter from the Dept. of Medical Genetics, has been elected vice-president of the Genetics Society of America (GSA) for 2011, and will become president in 2012.
The GSA is a society that represents more than 4,000 geneticists and science educators. Hieter is a long-time GSA member who served on the Board of Directors from 1995-97, and was co-organizer of the GSA-sponsored Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting in Vancouver this year.
For more information, visit http://www.med.ubc.ca/about_us/Awards_and_Honours.htm#Hieter
