Stephen W. Scherer
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 115 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5149-8264-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephen Wayne 'Steve' Scherer, PhD, DSc, FRSC (born January 5, 1964), is a Canadian scientist, whose research has revolutionized the understanding of genetic variation in human disease. He obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto under Professor Lap-chee Tsui, discoverer of the cystic fibrosis gene. Together they founded Canada's first human genome centre, the Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) at the Hospital for Sick Children. He continues to serve as Director of the multi-million dollar TCAG, and is also Director of the McLaughlin Centre, a $100M initiative in genomic medicine at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. His group has made several discoveries, documented in 300 publications and patents cited more than 20,000 times, positioning him as one of the most prolific scientists of his generation. He founded the Database of Genomic Variants, which facilitates tens of thousands of clinical diagnoses each year. His...