Prof. Roderick McInnes
Fellow
Current Employer
McGill University
Election Year
2001
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Department
Jewish General Hospital
Keywords
Homeobox genes, retinal and neurodevelopment, retinal degeneration, birth defects, human molecular genetics
Roderick McInnes is an internationally recognized human geneticist and a world leader in the fields of eye development and inherited eye disease. His discoveries include identification of major regulatory genes of eye development, association of these genes with inherited blindness, and the recognition that degenerating neurons often display exponential death kinetics. He is the inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Genetics of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.