Bruce Stillman

Dr. Stillman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the north shore of Long Island in New York.
A native of Australia.
He then moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1979 and has been at the Laboratory ever since, being promoted to the scientific staff in 1981.
Dr. Stillman has been Director of the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1992, a position he still holds.
In 1994 he succeeded Dr. James D.
Watson as Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and in 2003 was named its President.
His research focuses on understanding how genomes are duplicated prior to cell division.
For his research accomplishments, Dr. Stillman has received a number of honors including election as a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1993.
In 1994 he was awarded the Julian Wells Medal (Australia) and in 1995 he was elected a Charter Fellow of the Molecular Medicine Society.
In 1999 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to scientific research in the field of molecular biology.
He was elected in 2000 to the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences and in 2001 was elected as Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.
In addition to five honorary doctorates, he received the Alfred Sloan Prize for cancer research in 2004 and the Curtin Medal for Medical Excellence in 2007.
He is an advisor to a number of academic and commercial organizations.
Dr. Stillman he obtained a BS degree with honors at Sydney University and a PhD at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.