New York Genome Center, Columbia University: Bing Ren, Tom Maniatis

Bing Ren has been appointed as scientific director and CEO of the New York Genome Center, effective April 14. He is succeeding Tom Maniatis, who is transitioning to the role of scientific director emeritus of the NYGC. Ren will also join Columbia University as a professor in the Departments of Genetics and Development, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Systems Biology and as the associate director of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He comes to the NYGC and Columbia from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where he was a professor of cellular and molecular medicine and the founding director of the Center for Epigenomics. Ren holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University.