Judith L. Swain, M.d

Biography

 Dr. Judith L. Swain is currently the Executive Director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences within A*STAR, and the Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Her past appointments include Dean for Translational Medicine at the University of California, San Diego; Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University where she held the Arthur Bloomfield and George E. Becker Professorships; and as Professor of Genetics, and Director of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where she was the Herbert C. Rorer Professor of Medical Sciences. She trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine at Duke University and then joined the faculty there where she became 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. Dr. Swain has served in a number of national leadership roles including President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and President of the American Association of Physicians. She serves or has served as a director or a SAB member for a number of biomedical technology companies, and is co-founder of Synecor, LLC a medical device accelerator company. She has been elected to a number of honorary societies including the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Medicine.

Research Interest

 developmental biology and genetics