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Dr. Janet Rossant is Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is also a University Professor at the University of Toronto, and Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and the Department of Obstetrics/Gynaecology at the University of Toronto.
Her research interests center on understanding the genetic control of normal and abnormal development in the early mouse embryo using both cellular and genetic manipulation techniques. She is also involved in stem cell research, with her discovery of a novel placental stem cell type, the trophoblast stem cell: she is Deputy Director of the Canadian Stem Cell Network. She also directs the Centre for Modelling Human Disease in Toronto, which is undertaking genome-wide mutagenesis in mice to develop new mouse models of human disease.
Dr. Rossant, who joined the Stowers Institute Scientific Advisory Board in 2005, trained at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, United Kingdom and has been in Canada since 1977, first at Brock University and then in Toronto. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Societies of London and Canada and a Distinguished Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. | 