Lisa D. Brooks, PhD
Program Director
Genetic Variation Program
National Human Genome Research Institute  
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland                           

Speaker Topic: The HapMap Project

Dr. Brooks became the Program Director of the NIH Genetic Variation Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute in 1997. Prior to this appointment she was a Research Assistant in the Biology Departments at the University of California, San Diego, and Stanford University. She was then a Research Associate in the Statistics Department at North Carolina State University. From 1987-1994 Dr. Brooks was an Assistant Professor of Biology and Medicine in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Brown University. From 1994 -1997 she was the Program Officer in the Division of Environmental Biology in the Population Biology Program at the National Science Foundation.

Recipient of the NIH Director's Award for the HapMap Project (2003) and the NHGRI Awards of Merit for the HapMap Project and the CEGS Program (2002, 2003), Dr. Brooks has written three requests for applications at NHGRI.