Officer of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2013-05-02
Invested on: 2014-11-21
For his contributions to global breakthroughs in genome science and for his leadership in the field of cancer research.
Thomas Hudson is a global leader in genome science and a driver of Canadian medical research. A renowned geneticist, he led the team that built the first physical map of the human genome at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. He later founded the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, where he led the Canadian portion of the International Haplotype Map Consortium, a multi-country effort to identify genetic variations that impact health and disease. He is now the president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research where he is galvanizing the research community to advance the fight against cancer.