Stephen W. Scherer

Who is Stephen W. Scherer?

Stephen Wayne 'Steve' Scherer, PhD, DSc, FRSC, is a Canadian scientist who studies genetic variation in human disease. He obtained his PhD at the University of Toronto under Professor Lap-chee Tsui. Together they founded Canada's first human genome centre, the Centre for Applied Genomics at the Hospital for Sick Children. He continues to serve as Director of TCAG, and is also Director of the McLaughlin Centre at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.

Scherer's group has published over 350 papers and patents cited more than 30,000 times. He founded the Database of Genomic Variants, which facilitates clinical diagnoses of genetic diseases.