The University of South Florida has named Stephen Liggett its new vice dean for personalized medicine and genomics. Additionally, Liggett will be the associate VP for personalized medicine at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and be the director of the university's Personalized Medicine Institute.

Liggett comes to USF from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he was associate dean for interdisciplinary research and director of the cardiopulmonary genomics program.