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Stephen Scherer

Stephen Scherer

Stephen Scherer

Director
Centre for Applied Genomics
Hospital for Sick Children
101 College St, MaRS, TMDT,
14th Floor, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower
Toronto ON, M5G 1L7
Canada
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Dr. Scherer holds the GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Endowed Chair in Genome Sciences at The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. He has made numerous contributions to medical genetics including mapping sequencing and disease gene studies of human chromosome 7. In 2004, his team co-discovered global gene copy number variation (CNV) and has since shown that CNV is the most abundant type of nucleotide variation of human DNA. His group then identified CNV to contribute to the etiology of autism and many other disorders, and the Database of Genomic Variants he founded facilitates hundreds of thousands of clinical diagnoses each year. His work is documented in >300 publications and patents cited more than 20,000 times. Dr. Scherer has won numerous honors such as the 2004 Steacie Prize, an International Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship, and the 2008 Premier’s Summit Award for Medical Research. Dr. Scherer is a Canadian representative on the HUGO Council.