Dr. Judith L. Swain is currently Dean for Translational Medicine and the Founding Director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences (COILS) at the University of California, San Diego. In September, 2006 she will become the Executive Director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences within A*STAR. Prior to UCSD, Dr. Swain served as Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. She is widely known in the field of molecular cardiology, and pioneered the use of transgenic animals to understand the genetic basis of cardiovascular development and disease. She serves as a director or member of the scientific advisory boards for a number of biomedical technology companies, and is co-founder of Synecor, LLC a medical device incubator company. Dr. Swain has been elected to a number of honorary societies including the Institute of Medicine. |