enome Canada’s Board of Directors is comprised of up to 16 individuals, drawn from the academic, private and public sector communities. The presidents of five major federal research agencies —the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the National Research Council Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada — are ex officio advisors to the Board of Directors.

The Board has established a number of committees to help it discharge its duties, including an Executive Committee, Audit Committee, Investment Committee, Election Committee, Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee.

The Board of Directors has also established a Science and Industry Advisory Committee that provides strategic and visionary advice and expertise on an integrated strategy for research and development in the areas of genomics and proteomics in Canada.

On an annual basis, the Board of Directors evaluates its effectiveness in fulfilling its roles and responsibilities. The process assists the Board of Directors in determining what is working well, and identifying areas for improvement. The evaluation tool is a comprehensive questionnaire that is self-administered. The process is overseen by the Corporate Governance Committee.

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Board of Directors

C. Thomas Caskey, (Chair of the Board of Directors of Genome Canada)
Director and Chief Executive Officer
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX

Prabhat D. (Pete) Desai, (Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Genome Canada)
President
Desai & Desai Inc
Calgary, AB

Natalie E. Dakers
CEO
Centre for Drug Research and Development
Vancouver, BC

Sylvie Dillard
Manager, Special Projects
Office of the Deputy Minister
Quebec Ministry of Economic Development,
Innovation and Export Trade
Québec, QC

William Gelbart
Professor
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Khristinn Kellie Leitch
Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto Innovations Group
Toronto, ON

André Marcheterre
Past President
Merck Frosst Canada
Lorraine, QC

Eric M. Meslin
Director
Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Associate Dean
Bioethics, IU School of Medicine
Professor
Medicine, Medical and Molecular Genetics and Philosophy
Indianapolis, IN

Stephen Scherer
Senior Scientist
Director, The Centre for Applied Genomics
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON

Jacques Simard
Director
Cancer Genomics Laboratory
CHUQ Research Center
Québec City, QC

Ex-officio Advisors

Alain Beaudet
President
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Ottawa, ON

Suzanne Fortier
President
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON

Chad Gaffield
President
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Ottawa, ON

Daniel Gosselin
Acting President
National Research Council
Ottawa, ON

Eliot A. Phillipson
President and CEO
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Ottawa, ON