Dr Paul Lasko

Dr Paul Lasko has been appointed scientific director of the CIHR Institute of Genetics. Lasko currently chairs the department of biology at McGill Univ and was the Molson chair of genetics from 2001 to 2007. He is also president of the Genetics Society of Canada and has served on adjudication panels for CIHR or the Canadian Cancer Society continuously since 1995. He has also chaired the Human Frontiers in Science Program Organization's Council of Scientists since 2007. Lasko replaces Dr Roderick McInnes, who was the institute's inaugural scientific director for its first 10 years….