Long Citation
Stephen Scherer is one of Canada's leading geneticists making seminal contributions to the understanding of the human genome. He is internationally known for contributions to decoding the sequence of human chromosome 7, including the identification of 20 disease causing genes. His group also discovered the phenomena of large structural alterations as a common type of variation in the human genome contributing to both disease and evolution of chromosomes. He has published over 650 publications, won numerous awards including the Steacie Prize, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship, the Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research, the Killam Prize, and multiple Honorary degrees. Dr. Scherer is currently the Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada.

Short Citation
Stephen Scherer is an internationally known geneticists making seminal contributions to the understanding of the human genome. His group discovered the phenomena of large structural alterations as a common type of variation in the human genome contributing to both disease and evolution of chromosomes. Dr. Scherer has won numerous awards including the Steacie Prize, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship, the Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research, the Killam Prize, and multiple Honorary degrees. Dr. Scherer is currently the Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada.