Recipients

Janet Rossant
PhD, FRS, FRSC

SENIOR INVESTIGATOR
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital

PROFESSOR
Departments of Molecular and Medical Genetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Toronto

Dr. Rossant's research interests centre on understanding the genetic control of development in the early mouse embryo. Recently, her research has moved in two new directions. With stem cell research, Dr. Rossant discovered a novel placental stem cell type called the trophoblast. She has also moved on to genome-wide functional genomics. Dr. Rossant directs the Centre for Modelling Human Disease in Toronto which is undertaking genome-wide mutagenesis in mice to develop new mouse models of human disease. Thanks to funding from this CIHR award, Dr. Rossant will be able to focus on these new research initiatives.

Dr. Rossant is an Institute Advisory Board member for CIHR's Institute of Genetics and a Professor at the University of Toronto. She is actively involved in the international developmental biology community. Dr. Rossant was an Editor of Development, a specialized journal, for many years and was President of the Society for Developmental Biology in 1996/97. She was recently the Chair of CIHR's Working Group on stem cell research.

Dr. Rossant completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has received several awards, including the Eli Lilly/Robert L. Noble Prize from the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC). She is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Canada. She is also a two-time Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scholar. She has published over 200 papers and co-edited two books on Mammalian Development.

Janet Rossant - PhD, FRS, FRSC

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