Officer of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2000-04-27
Invested on: 2000-11-16
An internationally-renowned scientist, this University of Toronto Professor heads the Programme in Molecular Biology and Cancer at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. A Fellow of both the Royal Societies of Canada and London, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Killam Prize for the Health Sciences. His innovative research on the molecular language of cellular communication is vital to the understanding of a number of diseases.