Bruce Lahn

Bruce Lahn is a Chinese-born American geneticist. Lahn came to the U.S. from China to continue his education in the late 1980s. He is the William B. Graham professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Lahn currently serves as the chief scientist of VectorBuilder, Inc.

Lahn's honors include the TR100 Award from Technology Review magazine, the Merrill Lynch Forum Global Innovation Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award, and a Searle Scholarship. He was also named to the 40-Under-40 list by Crain’s Chicago Business magazine, Forbes China 100 Most Influential Chinese Worldwide, and PharmaVoice 100 Top Industry Leaders. Lahn received his B.A. in General Biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the lab of David C. Page. From 2000 to 2012, Lahn was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

His previous research specialized in human genetics and evolutionary genetics, especially human sex chromosome evolution and the genetic basis that underlies the evolutionary expansion of the human brain. Lahn's current research interests include stem cell biology, epigenetics and biotechnology.