Stephen Warren
Dr. Stephen T. Warren received his PhD in Human Genetics from Michigan State University in 1981. From 1981 to 1985, he was a fellow at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. In 1984, Dr. Warren also served as a visiting scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. In 1985, he joined the faculty of Emory University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics. Dr. Warren held the William Patterson Timmie Professorship of Human Genetics at Emory and was also a Professor of Biochemistry, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor at the Winship Cancer Institute.
In 1991, Dr. Warren was named an Associate Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and was promoted to Full Investigator in 1995. In January 2001, he founded and chaired the Department of Human Genetics at Emory School of Medicine. Dr. Warren was a Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Genetics with specialty certification in both clinical cytogenetics and clinical molecular genetics. He was a founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and a member of the Human Genome Organization.
Dr. Warren held various committee memberships in the American Society of Human Genetics, was elected to the Board of Directors in 1997, and served as President-elect in 2004. He served, or had served, on the editorial boards of major journals in human genetics and was the past chairman of the NIH Mammalian Genetics Study Section and of the NIGMS Working Group on the Human Genetic Mutant Cell Repository. In 1999, Dr. Warren assumed the editorship of The American Journal of Human Genetics.
Among his many awards, Dr. Warren received the Albert E. Levy Faculty Award from Emory University, the inaugural William Rosen Research Award from the National Fragile X Foundation, and a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. In 1999, he was awarded the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics, the highest international award in human genetics, for his research on fragile X syndrome. In 2003, Dr. Warren was an inaugural inductee into the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Hall of Honor for his identification of triplet repeat expansion as the cause of fragile X syndrome and as an entirely new inherited mechanism of genetic disease.
Dr. Warren passed away on June 6, 2021.
