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Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, first, middle): 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
Give the following information for the key personnel and consultants and collaborators. Begin with the principal 
investigator/program director. Photocopy this page for each person. 
NAME 
Savio L.C. Woo, Ph.D. 
T 
POSITION TITLE 
Investigator - Howard Hughes M' d : 
Professor - Baylor College of Medicine 
Institute 
EDUCATION (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and indude postdoctoral training.) 
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION 
DEGREE 
YEAR 
CONFERRED 
HELD OF STUDY 
Loyola College, Montreal, Canada 
B.S. 
1966 
Honors Chemistry 
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 
Ph.D. 
1971 
Biochemistry 
Univerity of British Columbia, Canada 
Postdoctoral 
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Concluding with present position, list, in chronological order, previous employment, experience, and 
honors. Key personnel indude the principal investigator and any other individuals who participate in the scientific development or execution of the project 
Key personnel typically wiH include all individuals with doctoral or other professional degrees, but in some projects win Include individuals at the masters or 
baccalaureate level provided they contribute In a substantive way to the scientific development or execution of the project Include present membership on 
any Federal Government public advisory committee. List in chronological order, the titles, all authors, and complete references to all publications during the 
past three years and to representative earlier publications pertinent to this application. OO NOT EXCEED TWO PAGES. 
1973 
1974 
1975 
1977 
1979 
1979 
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1990 
1991 
1974 
1975 
1978 
1979 
1983 
Present 
Present 
Present 
Present 
Present 
Research Assoicate, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine 
Instructor, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine 
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine 
Assoicate Incstigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine 
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine 
Professor, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine 
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine 
Director, Center for Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine 
MEMBERSHIP OF GRANT STUDY SECTIONS 
1981 - 1986 
1983 
1983 - 1985 
1988 - 1994 
Member, Ad Hoc Grant Review Committee on the Cystic Fibrosys Foundation . 
Member, NIH Grant Study Section on Physiological Chemistry . 
Member, NIH Grant Study Section on Molecular Biology . 
Member, Board of ScientiGc Counselors of NICHD. 
HONORS AND AWARDS 
1. Undergraduate Scholarship 1963-1966. Winner of ’Chemicall Prize* for highest four year average in all chemistry subjects. 
2. Member of the Board of Directors, Metropoliclan Houston Chapter of National Foundation March of Dimes for 1979-1987. 
3. Recipient of The Noel Rain Memorial Award from the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors in Metabolism, 1983. 
4. Honorary Membership in the Japanese Society of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 1986. 
5. Recipient of an NIH MERIT Award on a grant entitled "Phenylketonuria and the Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Gene* (HD-17711) 
from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1988. 
6. Recipient of 'Research for Development* Award form the Health Operators Committee for Development, UNICEF, 1989. 
MAJOR PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS ORGANIZED 
1. Organizer and Chairman of the first Gordon Research Conference entitled ’Molecular Genetics* in Colby Sawyer CoUege(s) on 
July 1-5, 1985. 
2. Co-organizer of a Serle-UCLA Symposium entitled 'Amino Acids in Health and Disease: New Perspectives* in Keystone, 
Colorado on May 30 - June 4, 1986. 
3. Organizer and Chairman of the 3rd SCBA International Symposium in Hong Kong on June 24-30, 1990. 
4. Organizer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Meeting entitled ’Regulation of Liver Gene Expression in Health & Disease* at 
CSHL on May 5-9, 1993. 
5. Chairman, Program Committee, Science Innovation ’93 in Boston on August 6-10, 1993. 
Organizer, Keystone Symposium entitled 'Gene Therapy and Molecular Medicine" at Steamboat Springs, Colorado on March 26- 
April 1, 1995. 
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