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Biosketch:
Dr. Stephen Scherer, PhD, holds the GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Endowed Chair in Genetics and Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. He has made numerous contributions to medical genetics including mapping sequencing and disease gene studies of human chromosome 7. He collaborated with the J. Craig Venter Institute to generate the first genome sequence of an individual ushering in an era of genomic medicine. In 2004, his team co-discovered global gene copy number variation (CNV) and has since shown that CNV is the most abundant type of nucleotide variation of human DNA. His group has also discovered CNV to contribute to the etiology of autism and the Database of Genomic Variants he founded facilitates tens of thousands of diagnoses each year. His work is documented in >275 publications cited some 20,000 times. Dr. Scherer has won numerous honors such as the Steacie Prize, an International Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship, and the Premier Summit Award for Medical Research. He is on the Board of Trustees of Genome Canada and the Human Genome Organization. |
