iBOL Board Chair
Dr. Christian Burks is a former President and CEO of the Ontario Genomics Institute, where his role drew on his career in basic and applied research institutions and start-up biotechnology companies: creating, developing, and managing database resources for molecular biology; analysing molecular sequence data; generating and managing genomics and proteomics technology and data to support drug discovery; and involvement at the start of the Human Genome Project. Dr. Burks was part of a team that created, and was later Principal Investigator for GenBank.

Christian Burks