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Details of Thomas J. Hudson
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Thomas James Hudson, M.D., (born June 12, 1961) is a Canadian genome scientist noted for his leading role in the generation of physical maps of the human and mouse genomes and also his role in the International HapMap Project whose goal is to develop a haplotype map of the human genome. As director of the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, which he established, Hudson and his team have made a number of discoveries in human genetics. These include genes mutated in rare diseases and genes involved in complex diseases such as asthma, type II diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. In July 2006, he was appointed president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal Human Genetics. Thomas Hudson is married and has five children. Beginnings and early career Hudson was born in 1961 in Arvida, Québec, where his father was a chemist for Alcan . He has six sisters including a twin sister [2]. He earned his M.D. degree in 1985 from the Université de Montréal. Then, he did residencies in internal medicine and Clinical Immunology and Allergy, the latter at McGill University Health Centre. In 1990, after a year of postdoctoral experience under the supervision of Emil Skamene and Danuta Radzioch, he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a fellowship with David Housman. There he became involved with Eric Lander's projects and eventually led the effort to build a physical map of the human genome, which was an important step towards the generation of the complete sequence of the human genome. He supervised a large team of engineers, biologists, computer scientists to build high throughput PCR systems. The robot built by his team, called the "Genomatron", performed up to 300,000 PCR reactions per day. He was also part of an international effort to build a transcript map of the human genome. By 1996, his team had mapped more than 10,000 genes. In 1995, he became the assistant director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research a position which he held until 2001. Awards Hudson's accomplishments have been recognized by numerous awards and honors: - In 1998, he was a recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40
- In 2000, he received the Scientist of the Year award by Radio-Canada
- In 2001, he received the Robert H. Haynes Young Scientist Award by the Genetics Society of Canada
- In 2002, he received a Burroughs-Wellcome Clinician-Scientist Award
- In 2005, was voted as the person who made the most significant contribution to healthcare by the readers of MacLean's
- In 2006, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Category: Genetic
Type: Scientist & Engineers
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