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Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D

Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D., is President, Director and co-founder of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD, a non-for-profit center which has been at the forefront of genomics since its origin in 1992. Starting with her work in 1995 on the first bacterial genome to be sequenced, Dr. Fraser has become an international leader in the field of microbial genomics and forensics, as the first or senior author on scientific papers that have described the complete DNA sequences of more than two dozen organisms, including the microbe that cause anthrax and several other pathogens that are considered to be biothreat agents.

Dr. Fraser was a member of a National Research Council committee on countering bioterrorism and was appointed in 2005 to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a high-level board that seeks to promote biosecurity in life science research. She has served on review committees of the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. She has published more than 220 articles in scientific journals, has edited three books, and serves on the editorial boards of five scientific journals. Her academic and professional honors have included the 2005 Promega Biotechnology Research Award from the American Society of Microbiology, the 2005 Charles Thom Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology, the 2002 E. O. Lawrence Award from the Department of Energy, election as a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recognition as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. In addition to her leadership of TIGR, Dr. Fraser also holds professorships in Microbiology and Tropical Medicine as well as in Pharmacology at The George Washington University School of Medicine. Before becoming TIGR’s president in 1998, Dr. Fraser was the institute’s vice president of research and director of its microbial genomics department. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, including three years as Chief of the Section of Molecular Neurobiology at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from State University of New York at Buffalo.