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Professor Lap-chee Tsui is an internationally renowned geneticist and the human gene research authority. He received international acclaim in 1989 when he identified the defective gene that causes Cystic Fibrosis, which is a major breakthrough in human genetics. He has made significant contributions to the mapping and annotation of Human chromosome 7 and identification of many other disease-bearing genes. Professor Tsui has received numerous awards and honors over the years. The University of Toronto has named him one of ten "Giants of Biomedical Science" in 2006.
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