Dr. Malcolm Whiteway - Biography

Dr. Malcolm Whiteway
Tel.: (514) 496-6146
Fax: (514) 496-6213
E-mail: malcolm.whiteway@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

Dr. Malcolm Whiteway has been the Principal Research Officer and Group leader of the Genetic laboratory at the BRI since 2001. He joined the group of Dr. David Thomas at the National Research Council's Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal as a Research Associate, where he became a Research Officer in the group in 1988. He received an honours B.Sc. and the Biology Medal from Dalhousie University in 1977, and was awarded a NSERC Centennial Scholarship to attend the University of Alberta. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the Genetics Department of the University of Alberta in 1982, and accepted an Alberta Heritage Research Fellowship to do postdoctoral work with Dr. J. Szostak at Harvard University. In 1995-96 he did a sabbatical year to set up and run a yeast group at Glaxo-Welcome Medicines Research Center in Stevenage, U.K. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Biology Department of McGill University. He has published over 90 papers and reviews, including two noteworthy publications in Cell (1989) and Science (1995), which contributed to his reputation as one of the world's experts in yeast signal transduction and genetics. Dr. Whiteway has been invited to speak at over 25 international conferences, and he is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Molecular Microbiology, the College of Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs Program, as well as an instructor of the Cold Spring Harbour Yeast Genetic and Genomics Course.

To know more about the Genetic Group research activities, please visit the Genetic Group section on the NRC-BRI web site.