Announcement: Dr. Gregory Gloor re-appointed as Chair, Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Greg Gloor
Dr. Gloor earned his BSc Honours in Genetics from Western University and his PhD from the Department of Biochemistry at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry. He then went on to complete post-doctoral studies at the Laboratory of Genetics at University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. Dr. Gloor’s first faculty position was in Medical Genetics at Memorial University in Newfoundland. In 1993, he joined the Department of Biochemistry at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and achieved the rank of full Professor in 2002.
Dr. Gloor maintains an active and collaborative research program, having studied and published on a diverse range of research areas, including mammalian virus replication, the genome structure and function of bacteriophage Mu, P element regulation in Drosophila, gene targeting and somatic cell homologous recombination in Drosophila, molecular co-evolution, human and animal microbiomes, and Bayesian and machine-learning approaches for high-throughput sequence analysis. Dr. Gloor has published over 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts, with papers appearing in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature, Cell, and PNAS. He is also listed among the highly-cited researchers on the Web of Science.
Dr. Gloor has held funding as a principal or co-investigator from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), National Institutes of Health Research, NIH, and the Ontario Genomics Institute, in addition to funding from a number of private foundations such as the Cancer Research Society of Canada and the Weston Family Foundation. He is currently a co-investigator on an award from CIHR and NSERC, and has several ongoing industrial collaborations and consultations.
Dr. Gloor is an Associate Editor for BMC Microbiome, and for Nucleic Acids Research Genomics and Bioinformatics. He has served on grant review panels for the National Cancer Society of Canada, the Crohn’s and Colitis Society, the Medical Research Council of Canada, and the CIHR. He is recent past Chair of the CIHR Genomics Committee and a member of the CIHR College of Reviewers.
Dr. Gloor is the recipient of several awards including a Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Western University; K.M. Hunter Fellowship, National Cancer Institute of Canada; Medical Research Council Salary Award, Development Grant in Molecular Biology; WL Magee Teaching Award in Biochemistry; Schulich School of Medicine Teaching Award; a five-time recipient of the University Student’s Council Teaching Honor Roll; and the Faculty Scholar and Faculty Development Award (UdG Spain).
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Gloor on his re-appointment as the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry.
John Yoo, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Western University
