Philip (phil) Hieter PhD

Philip Hieter is a Professor of Medical Genetics at the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hieter is recognized for his work on structural and regulatory proteins that ensure faithful segregation of chromosomes during cell division, including important studies on yeast centromeres, sister chromatid cohesion, and regulation of cell cycle progression during mitosis. Throughout his career, his work has demonstrated and advocated the value of model experimental organisms for understanding the mechanisms of human disease. Dr. Hieter received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1981, trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, and was a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1985-1997. He moved to the University of British Columbia in 1997 and served as Director of the Michael Smith Laboratories until 2008. Dr. Hieter served as President of the Genetics Society of America in 2012, and President of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences in 2017. He was the recipient of the George Beadle Award from the Genetics Society of America in 2018. Dr. Hieter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and an elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences