John Challis

Biography

Professor John Challis joined the Board in June 2014 as proxy for the Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia (UWA). He is currently Executive Director; WA Health Translation Network (WAHTN), having served as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Health and Medical Research at UWA from 2014 – 2015. John holds the title of University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, and Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and at Simon Fraser University. John completed his training at the Universities of Cambridge, University of California, San Diego and Harvard Medical School and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, before moving to McGill University, Montreal, Canada. More recently he served as Chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and later as Vice President Research and Associate Provost of that University. He was the inaugural Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health and served as President and CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in Vancouver BC.

Research Interest

Physiology