2012 INDUCTEE Lap-Chee Tsui, PhD Cells, Genetics & Genomics

Dr. Tsui and his wife Ellen relocated to Toronto to be closer to their sons and grandchildren

Following his two terms as President of the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Tsui carried on as President of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong.

He also served as President of the Victor and William Fung Foundation, Director of Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies and Master of the Residential College of International Campus of Zhejiang University.

Lap-Chee Tsui inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Toronto, Ontario

Named one of the Ten Giants of Science by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto

Was appointed President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong

Over 12 years in that position he led the University through a series of governance and management reforms, human resource reforms, and strategic developments in research, teaching and learning.

Was appointed Geneticist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children, succeeding Dr. Ronald Worton, and before him, Dr. Lou Siminovitch, both Laureates of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

In that role Dr. Tsui led the field in cataloguing all mutations identified in the CFTR gene and determining their biological significance. With former student Steve Scherer, they provided international leadership to the mapping of other disease genes on chromosome 7.

Recognized for his significant contributions to human genetics, appointed Associate Editor of the American Journal of Human Genetics

Later, Dr. Tsui served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics.

The discovery of the CFTR gene defective in cystic fibrosis was published in three foundational papers in Science magazine and received worldwide acclaim as the first disease gene to be identified through linkage mapping and positional cloning

Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui completed a four-year tour-de-force to map the cystic fibrosis gene to a position on human chromosome 7

Joined the Hospital for Sick Children’s Department of Genetics and Research Institute as well as became a faculty member of the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics at the University of Toronto

Graduated with a Bachelor and Masters degree in Biology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a PhD in biological sciences from the University of Pittsburg

Dr. Tsui then came to Canada as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.