About Speaker

Professor Jianjun Liu is currently the Distinguished Institute Fellow at the Genome Institute of Singapore. His research focuses on understanding the genetic and epigenetic bases of human diseases. Prof Liu has published over 470 peer-reviewed papers with over 49,000 citations (H-index = 95). He has won Singapore’s “President’s Science Award” in 2020 and the “Chen Young Investigator Award” from the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in 2011. He was recognised by Thomson Reuters as one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” (top 1% of scientists with the highest number of citations globally) in 2015.