Stephen W. Scherer

Stephen W. Scherer, April 2011

Stephen Wayne Scherer (born January 5, 1964 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a Canadian geneticist and genomist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and at the University of Toronto .

Scherer is known for his work on the genetics of autism and variations in the number of gene copies ( Gene copy number variants ) and their relationship to certain diseases. Further work deals with chromosome 7 and its significance for genetic diseases. Scherer founded the Database of Genomic Variants , which helps scientists around the world to research genetic diseases.

Scherer graduated from the University of Waterloo a Bachelor (Honors Science Degree) and both a Master and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Medical School . As of 2014, he is research group leader for genetics and genomic biology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and director of the Center for Applied Genomics there . He is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto.

From 2002 to 2006 Scherer also conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute .

Since 2014 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations . Scherer has published (as of 2014) over 370 scientific publications that have been cited more than 40,000 times.

Scherer is married and has two children.

Awards (selection)

• 2001 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Windsor
• 2007 member of the Royal Society of Canada
• 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Web links

• Stephen W. Scherer . Center for Applied Genomics (tcag.ca)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephen W. Scherer, PhD . Howard Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi.org), accessed September 25, 2014.
2. ↑ 2014 Predictions . In: ScienceWatch. Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.org), accessed September 25, 2014.
3. ^ Fellows . Royal Society of Canada (rsc-src.ca), accessed September 25, 2014.