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  • 17 Nov 2024
    Dr. Lacbawan received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of the Philippines and became a faculty member of…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Galileo S. Zafra is a literature, language, and Philippine Studies professor at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, University…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Dr. Michelle R. Palumbarit obtained her doctoral degree in Political Science from Yonsei University, Seoul in 2016 and her master’s…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Kyung Min Bae, Ph.D. is Assistant Professorial Fellow at UP Department of Linguistics where she has been teaching since 2010.…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Dr. Jose Antonio R. Clemente is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Imee Su Martinez is a Professor of the Institute of Chemistry University of the Philippines-Diliman. Her research interest is surface…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Shari Niña Oliquino is the current UP System Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs (Student Affairs) and Director of the…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Dr. Alyssa Peleo-Alampay is currently Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs (Quality Assurance) of the University of the Philippines System…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Dr. Percival Flavier Almoro is a professor at the National Institute of Physics (NIP), University of the Philippines Diliman. He…

  • 17 Nov 2024
    Ma. Theresa T. Payongayong is a professor at the Department of Philosophy of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social…

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Director, Philippine Genome Center

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Dr. Lacbawan received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of the Philippines and became a faculty member of the Department of Human Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UP College of Medicine. She had her Clinical and Anatomic Pathology residency training at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University and her fellowship in Clinical Genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NHGRI-NIH).
She is board certified by the American Board of Pathology and Clinical Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics. She served as a faculty member with the highest rank of Clinical Professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Dr. Lacbawan became the Vice President, Advanced Diagnostics – Genetics and Genomics, Research and Development, and Bioinformatics at the largest clinical diagnostics reference laboratory in the United States. She was a member of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Subcommittee on Biochemical and Molecular Genetics, CAP Subcommittee on Pharmacogenomics and the American College of Medical Genetics Professional and Practice Guidelines Committee, and also served as a special volunteer at the Undiagnosed Disorders Program at the NHGRI-NIH. Her publications are on various developmental, mitochondrial and neurological genetic disorders, chromosomal anomalies, cancer diagnostics, and molecular genetic test proficiency and test utilization.