BIOGRAPHY

Dr. David Y. Thomas FRSC

David Thomas is presently Chair of the Biochemistry Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and also the holder of a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics.

Dr Thomas obtained his Ph.D. in genetics from University College London UK and worked at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, UK, where he established a system for mitochondrial genetics. He worked on the isolation of eukaryotic genes at the Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, and the Institut fur Genetik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen. He was until recently the Head of the Genetics Group at the National Research Council of Canada's Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal