ABOUT US

The Institute of Human Genetics (IHG) began in 1990 as the Medical Genetics Unit of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine which in 1999 became as one of the service and research oriented institutes of the National Institutes of Health-University of the Philippines Manila (NIH-UP). Since then all services of the Medical Genetics Unit were transferred to the Institute and is now the largest provider of genetic services in the country.

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International Linkages

 

Institutions


•    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
•    B.C. Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
•    Centers for Diseases Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
•    Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
•    Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
•    National University Hospital, Singapore
•    Veteran’s General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
•    The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
•    The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
•    The Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
•    University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
•    Utah State University, Utah, USA
•    Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
•    Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

 

Experts
Dr. Kevin Carpenter
NSW Biochemical Genetics Laboratory Australia
Dr. John Christodolou
Western Sydney genetics, NSW Australia
Dr. Joe T.R. Clarke
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Edison Liu
Genome Institute of Singapore
Dr. Kwang-Jen Hsiao
Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Dr. Masafumi Matsuo
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
Dr. Jeff Murray
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Dr. Lai Poh San
National University Hospital Singapore, Singapore
Prof. David Sillence
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Bradford Therrell
National Newborn Screening and Genetics Research Center, Texas, USA
Dr. Bridget Wilcken
NSW Newborn Screening and Metabolic Services, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia
Dr. Veronica Wiley
NSW Newborn Screening and Metabolic Services, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia