International Advisory Committee

The International Advisory Committee (IAC) for the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee was first set up by invitation in October 1999. The IAC considers issues of policy which are of importance to human gene nomenclature, and makes recommendations to be implemented by the Nomenclature Committee. Members of the committee serve for fixed terms, and new members can be proposed by emailing hgnc@genenames.org. Topics previously dicussed by the IAC are listed here

members of IAC executive committee.

HGNC IAC

• Veronica van Heyningen (chair) 
  MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
• Amos Bairoch
  Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland
• Deanna Church
  National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA
• Tim Hubbard
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
• Peter Stadler
  University of Leipzig, Germany
• Tom Bonner
  National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA
• David Burt
  Roslin Institute & Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Midlothian, UK
• Richard Cammack
  King's College London, UK
• Johan den Dunnen
  Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
• Janan Eppig
  The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA
• Doron Lancet
  Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• Dan Nebert
  University of Cincinnati, USA
• Bonnie Pagon
  University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
• Sue Povey
  University College London, UK
• Steve Scherer
  The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto, Canada
• Alan Scott
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
• Derek Stemple
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
• Hillary Sussman
  Genome Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
• Todd Taylor
  RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Yokohama, Japan