Monica J. Justice
Head and Senior Scientist
Genetics & Genome Biology
SickKids
Canada
Biography
Monica J. Justice, PhD, is the Head and a Senior Scientist in the Genetics & Genome Biology program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario. She recently moved to this position from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, where she was a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics and Director of the Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Core and the BaSH Consortium for the Production and Broad-based Phenotyping of Knockout Mice. Justice received her PhD from Kansas State University in mouse developmental genetics and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Mammalian Genetics Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute.
Research Interest
Her research exploits that genes and whole chromosome regions are conserved between the mouse and human.