Roderick R McInnes

Roderick R. McInnes is the Director of the Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital, Canada Research Chair in Neurogenetics, and Professor of Genetics and of Biochemistry at McGill University, where he has succeeded Charles Scriver as the Alva Chair in Human Genetics. Until recently, he was a University Professor of the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. McInnes received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Dalhousie University, and his Ph.D. from McGill. Previously he was the Head of the Program in Developmental Biology at the Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children, an International Research Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and, from 2000-2010, the inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Genetics of CIHR.