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Dr. McPherson is Acting Vice President of Research and Development, a member of the Board of Directors, and is a scientific co-founder of the Company. He is currently the Cancer Genomics Director and Senior Principal Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada. He is focusing on genomic and proteomic characterization of cancer stem cells for biomarker discovery for improved imaging and diagnostic and treatment potential. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and faculty member of the Human Genome Sequencing Center (2003-2007) where his research focused on utilizing high-throughput genomic resources to study human disease and functional genomics. Dr. McPherson's prior appointments were Associate Professor of Genetics and Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1995-2003) and Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Co-Director of the Human Genome Research Center at the University of California at Irvine (1994-1995). Dr. McPherson is an expert in physical mapping and positional cloning and played a lead role in the generation of the human and mouse physical maps as part of the Human Genome Project. Dr. McPherson received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Queen's University (Ontario) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biochemistry Department at the University of California (Irvine). | 