John D. Mcpherson

Biography

Dr. McPherson is a member of the Board of Directors, and is a scientific co-founder of the Company. He is currently the Cancer Genomics Director and Senior Principal Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, and Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He is focusing on genomic characterization of tumors for gene target and biomarker discovery for improved detection, diagnosis and treatment potential. His laboratory has major efforts in pancreatic and prostate cancer as well as integrating high-throughput sequencing technologies into the clinical decision tree for therapeutic intervention. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and faculty member of the Human Genome Sequencing Center (2003-2007) where his research focused on utilizing high-throughput genomic resources to study human disease and functional genomics. Dr. McPherson's prior appointments were Associate Professor of Genetics and Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1995-2003) and Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Co-Director of the Human Genome Research Center at the University of California at Irvine (1994-1995). Dr. McPherson is an expert in genomics and played a lead role in the generation of the human and mouse physical maps as part of the Human Genome Project. Dr. McPherson received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Queen's University (Ontario) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biochemistry Department at the University of California (Irvine).

Research Interest

Genomics