Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee is constituted to provide advice and input on science and strategy. Members of the committee initially serve for a three or four year period, and are listed below.

HGNC SAB (2025)

• Terence Murphy (Chair)(2017-)
  National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA
• Ivo Hofacker (2020-)
  University of Vienna, Austria
• Andrew Wilkie (2020-)
  University of Oxford, UK
• Cecilia Arighi (2021-)
  University of Delaware, USA
• Emily Clark (2025-)
  European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK
• Pascale Gaudet (2025-)
  Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Past Members

• Jim Reecy (2014-2015) 
  Iowa State University, USA
• Mark McCarthy  (2014-2015)
  Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
• Kim Pruitt (2014-2016)
  National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA
• Todd Taylor (2014-2018)
  RIKEN Centre for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
• Eleftheria Zeggini (2016-2018)
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
• Anne Ferguson-Smith (2019)
  University of Cambridge, UK
• Peter Stadler (2014-2019)
  University of Leipzig, Germany
• Helen Firth (2014-2020)
  Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, UK
• Fiona McCarthy (2016-2022)
  University of Arizona, USA
• Peter Robinson (2019-2024)
  The Jackson Laboratory, USA

 

The SAB supercedes the HGNC's International Advisory Committee (IAC) which was first set up by invitation in October 1999; more information about the IAC can be found here